MPAA School Propaganda Program Examined

Anonymous Coward copies-and-pastes: "'As part of its campaign to thwart online music and movie piracy, Hollywood is now reaching into school classrooms with a program that denounces file-sharing and offers prizes for students and teachers who spread the word about Internet theft. The Motion Picture Association of America paid $100,000 to deliver its anti-piracy message to 900,000 students nationwide in grades 5-9 over the next two years, according to Junior Achievement Inc., which is implementing the program using volunteer teachers from the business sector." Only $100,000 to advertise to 900,000 students? What a deal! We mentioned this earlier.

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Great, first it was Barney, then it was the gay

[Uttles]

telletubbie, and now the damn RIAA is brainwashing our kids! And people wonder what's wrong with this country!

We don't need the RIAA in schools, we need the tossed salad man in schools!

wow

[anmehxr]

this is amazing -- what ever happened to those wonderful things called "rights"? i think they got purged. these are truly soviet-esque tactics. has anyone seen Joe Stalin wandering around the MPAA or RIAA offices?