So the intellectual rights mafia has given up on convincing our generation that piracy is bad
they now have moved on to indoctrinating little children.
Obviously this is sick, but also might back-fire
Because when children become teenagers they often distance them selfs from childhood rules.
I could imagine teenagers pirating stuff not only because its cheaper to not pay, but also because they want to defy the rules.
You called it, I didn't even know what pirating was until I was 16. Had I only been taught what it was as a child...
It is pretty damn twisted how the mpaa can sneak into classrooms now. I was working in an elementary school (had kids in the building before it was even done being built..) and I overheard a teacher preaching about the NSA and CISPA protecting us and what not, made me want to vomit.
Yeah i wouldn't worry about the NSA and CISPA propaganda either, that maliciousness is seared into public consciousness. Besides all those kids are going to be confronted by a massive onslaught of undeniable counterarguments on the Internet. A few old people that are too far removed from youth culture probably wont make a dent into public opinion. I was fed the same for your protection -line when I was a little boy. And It didn't stuck...
Kids are going to do what you tell them not to do, so in reality they are helping create more pirates ROFL.
Aiming this campaign at schoolchildren is the most effective course of action (since kids look at others and follow their examples and therefore they say "if they don't buy, why should I buy?" But it's an extremely gray area on the morality scale and it just stinks of corruption and abuse of power.
I think this is a perfect time to push back against these entertainment syndicates that make up these organizations. This country isn't about it's people anymore, it's about what these coorporations want the people to be.
You called it, I didn't even know what pirating was until I was 16.
There's kind of an opposite thing going on less wealthy countries. In my case, pirating was the only way I got any digital content because paying for it was not really an option. Back in 2006-ish I used torrents, DC++ and FTP servers, but I had no idea about any way of legally acquiring digital content except for buying disks in stores.
It's kind of a recent thing that there are a lot of people who use the internet and don't know how to pirate.
raimeken: Aiming this campaign at schoolchildren is the most effective course of action
Well yes, it's the most effective option they got, but is it going to be effective enough ?
You see childhood indoctrination doesn't overcome peer-influence that radiates down from slightly older peers. Religions found that out the hard way, trying to forbid fun & lost most of their political power in the process.
The latest piracy trend is file-sharing in ad-hoc Smart-phone-wifi... They are trying to fight technology & human nature with indoctrination. That has never worked before.
I think the only thing they might be able to get is children professing that piracy is bad while doing it in secrecy, just like older generations are professing that pornography is bad while being the largest Porn-customers-base.
I think that the traditional content provider model is impossible to enforce. They got allot of money left from the past which they will spend trying to hang on. Making everybody miserable in the process. But in the end they will run out money and subsequently out of power & then newer better business models like Netflix or youtube will assert them selfs.
But you are right about it being time to push back, because even if their defeat is certain, the damage they might cause could be catastrophic for society -> censorship, forced drm on everything, creating a black market for cracked devices. (Similar to alcohol prohibition, probably with as much violence)