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October 24, 2006
Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Brainwashed
Posted by Alan Wexelblat
It's really hard to top Techdirt's headline for this story: The Boy Scouts Now Have An MPAA Merit Badge In Misleading Arguments. If you're a Boy Scout in southern CA you can now get an "activity patch" (which is apparently different from a "merit badge") in such key survival techniques as identifying copied CDs, ratting out your friends for downloading, and sucking up to Hollywood. Yeesh. What ever happened to helping old ladies across streets? Cory Doctorow also had some choice words on the topic. Any connection between this activity and the large donations given by Hollywood to the Boy Scouts is purely coincidental. Really.
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1. Ygor Valerio on October 25, 2006 8:50 AM writes...
So is it wrong to educate people on IP rights? I don't think so.
Permalink to Comment2. drwex on October 25, 2006 2:57 PM writes...
"Education" is a term usually associated with an impartial entity. The MPAA is hardly impartial and, as noted in the linked entries, is guilty of fraud, collusion, and outright lying to make its case. Hardly the sort of entity I want educating my children.
Permalink to Comment3. Ygor Valerio on February 10, 2007 2:07 PM writes...
Well, information is out there in the world. The way our kids look at it has more to do with value and moral grounds, as well as with a critical spirit (largely derived from home education), and less to do with the content of the information itself.
Permalink to CommentAs for MPAA, your judgement seems biased enough, and speaks for itself.