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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/25/business/media/25STUD.html?pagewanted=1
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This fall the industry's trade association is joining with Junior Achievement, an organization based in Colorado Springs whose volunteers lecture students from kindergarten through high school on the fundamentals of business, economics and free enterprise. An hourlong lesson plan was created in conjunction with Warner Brothers Entertainment, a unit of AOL Time Warner, and covers the history of copyright, the economic benefits of both the music and movie industries, and the consequences for consumers who violate copyright laws.
Junior Achievement is projecting that the lesson, which will be taught both in school and after school, will be used in 36,000 classrooms nationwide and has the potential of reaching 900,000 students in grades five through nine, or about 10 percent of all students in those grade levels.
In the role-playing activity Starving Artist, for example, groups of students are encouraged to come up with an idea for a musical act, write lyrics and design a CD cover only to be told by a volunteer teacher their work can be downloaded free. According to the lesson, the volunteer would then "ask them how they felt when they realized that their work was stolen and that they would not get anything for their efforts."
That last paragraph makes me laugh. Anyone who knows anything about the recording industry, or who has at least heard Courtney Love blather on, will know why.
If the RIAA/MPAA would actually donate money to an ailing public school system instead of this "Junior Achievement" organization, I would probably be more forgiving of their acts. But no, they spend money on propaganda, on trying to strengthen their image through words instead of actions. Instead of making kids learn stuff that could be USEFUL to them, they're making them learn stuff about THE EVILS OF DOWNLOADING SONGS. Like that's going to get them somewhere in life. Well FUCK them if they're going to pull shit like that. Every second they become more despicable.
I should really hunt for used CD shops around here. They're cheaper anyway.
Excerpt:
This fall the industry's trade association is joining with Junior Achievement, an organization based in Colorado Springs whose volunteers lecture students from kindergarten through high school on the fundamentals of business, economics and free enterprise. An hourlong lesson plan was created in conjunction with Warner Brothers Entertainment, a unit of AOL Time Warner, and covers the history of copyright, the economic benefits of both the music and movie industries, and the consequences for consumers who violate copyright laws.
Junior Achievement is projecting that the lesson, which will be taught both in school and after school, will be used in 36,000 classrooms nationwide and has the potential of reaching 900,000 students in grades five through nine, or about 10 percent of all students in those grade levels.
In the role-playing activity Starving Artist, for example, groups of students are encouraged to come up with an idea for a musical act, write lyrics and design a CD cover only to be told by a volunteer teacher their work can be downloaded free. According to the lesson, the volunteer would then "ask them how they felt when they realized that their work was stolen and that they would not get anything for their efforts."
That last paragraph makes me laugh. Anyone who knows anything about the recording industry, or who has at least heard Courtney Love blather on, will know why.
If the RIAA/MPAA would actually donate money to an ailing public school system instead of this "Junior Achievement" organization, I would probably be more forgiving of their acts. But no, they spend money on propaganda, on trying to strengthen their image through words instead of actions. Instead of making kids learn stuff that could be USEFUL to them, they're making them learn stuff about THE EVILS OF DOWNLOADING SONGS. Like that's going to get them somewhere in life. Well FUCK them if they're going to pull shit like that. Every second they become more despicable.
I should really hunt for used CD shops around here. They're cheaper anyway.
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