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School District Considers 'Anti-Piracy' Education Campaign Based On Anti-Drug Education Campaigns
from the just-say-buy? dept
Forget "just say no," and say hello to "just say buy." Copycense points out that some Scottish schools seem to think that unauthorized sharing of music and movies is analogous to using drugs, and deserves a similar sort of education plan. Of course, the entertainment industry would be more than happy to provide any one of its numerous propaganda educational curricula for the task. The problem, of course, is that if you are at all familiar with the subject, you would realize that unauthorized file sharing is not a societal problem like "drug use," but is a business model issue. Of course, given how (un)successful the "war on drugs" has been, perhaps it's silly to worry about an equally ridiculous "war on piracy."
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I think the point is that teens tend to rebel and adding copyright propaganda to the list only makes sense if you want teens to ignore it.
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Simple Solution.
Use material that give you the rights you want.
Copyleft licenses were created for that very purpose and are the faster way to counter copyright abuses.
Another catchy frase would be "Stop using that (copyrighted)crap!"
- Be copyfree with copyleft!
- Copyleft is not theft(LoL I like this one although it makes not much sense)
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But they are analogous. Draconian legal attempts to solve both "problems" have actually made the "problems" worse.
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You get them hooked on that first "free" song, and the next thing you know, they're buying T-shirts!
LOOOOOOOTS OF T-SHIRTS!
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They could be.
Oh yes, they COULD BE!!!
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The BEST part..
Is that IF' the kids hadnt known about it BEFORE!!
They do now..
With anti piracy, its just SHOWING them that it can be DONE.
So they will do the SAME, and go look at WHATS happening.
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But there is a potential difference. Have you seen the movie American drug war? If it's the case that special interest groups/the government itself bans drugs for the purpose of selling them at monopoly prices then the war on drugs is not really directed at stopping the sale of drugs, merely at monopolizing it. Hence the alleged efforts to stop the sale of drugs are going to be unsuccessful by design. However, the attempts to stop piracy are not designed to be unsuccessful.
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Makes sense...
It'll probably work as well as the drug education campaigns too - which is not at all, really. I mean yes, the legitimate health class drug education works to an extent, but even elementary school kids can tell the propaganda from the truth. I remember when I was in elementary school there was one day a year where they'd pass out these ribbons we were supposed to wear that said "Proud to be drug free". Depending on our age we would either stab ourselves with the safety pins (kids would pin the ribbon to their hand or something), or scratch off/write in letters so it said 'Proud to be drugee' or 'Proud to be drugged' or just plain not wear the damn things. And it wasn't because any of us were doing drugs, it was just because we knew it was stupid propaganda and refused to take part in it.
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God, are you retarded or what? Under your "argument" sex should be illegal, because you certainly would not want someone driving while having sex. All sports should be banned, because you certainly do not want someone driving while playing football. And most certainly sleeping should be banned, because absolutely no one should sleep while behind the wheel.
Legality or illegality doesn't change the nature of the substance, only its connotation.
Gee, you just proved Urza9814's point. Pot only has the connotation of being bad because it's illegal. Not for any objective basis.
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that marijuana, at least, does have some medicinal uses, so I can certainly see the benefit of legalization in that case.
I'm wondering, though, about other drugs - such as crack, cocaine, LSD, PCP,
meth, barbituates, etc. Do they have medicinal uses as well? I honestly don't know. How would it be beneficial to legalize them? I'm not arguing here, just asking is all. It just seems to me that it would be better to address the things that cause people to feel that drugs are the only way to feel good and cool and all that in the first place.
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Whether one likes a law or not, the deliberate violation of a duly enacted law is a societal problem. If you do not like a law, then use societal rules to advocate for change.
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It's not necessarily a question of whether one likes a law or not, it's more of a question of whether a law is a just law or not. Current IP laws are unjust.
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And that's exactly the point of this website. So what's your problem?
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Perhaps I'm wrong. In fact, I dare this school to prove me wrong. But I'm not holding my breath.
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also, with the war on drugs its mainly campaigned for by the religous right who see any form of 'vice' as a bad thing, and so try to force their view of the world onto others.
as the use of drugs increases and as the use of dubiously obtained copyrighted works increases society will start to have a different view on them, whether societies govurnments will change in accordance to societies views is another matter.
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