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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Are the teachers from Junior Achievement? What is the selection process? I would love to do this (to be one of the educators). Since I have the Macintosh contracts with the majority of the Upstate SC schools and I actually see merit in filesharing technology, I believe I would be a good candidate. I would like to promote the online (pay for) services like the iTunes Music Store.

My suggestion: that they give these "teachers" gift certificates to the iTunes Store, Napster, Dell Music, etc.

Anyone from any of these services or that feel philanthropic want to donate some tunes via GC?