File-Sharing Ethics Taught In Classrooms?

shams42 writes "According to the New York Times, the movie/record industries are taking their concerns about P2P file sharing into the classroom (free reg. req.) Among other activities, they are planning to play a game called 'Starving Artist' with 5th-9th graders, where students come up with an idea for a record album, cover art, and lyrics only to be told by teachers that the album is already available for download for free."

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What about the children?

[Donald_Knuth_Esq.]

During our summer vacation this year, my wife and I amused ourselves by taking leisurely drives in Ohio and photographing every diamond-shaped highway sign that we saw along the roadsides. (Well, not every sign; only the distinct ones.) For provenance, I also stood at the base of each sign and measured its GPS coordinates.

This turned out to be even more fun than a scavenger hunt, so we filled in some gaps when we returned to California, thereby proving my theorem of teaching moral lessons to children on the topic of illegal file sharing, which can be found in LaTeX format on my website.

Sincerely,

Donald E. Knuth

Re:MOD PARENT UP

[Anonymous Coward]

Ironically, its parent god modded +5 insightful. HAIL SLASHDOT!