[h3]Boy Scouts shill for MPAA with copyright merit badge
[/h3] The Boy Scouts of America will offer rewards to Scouts who absorb a brainwashing regime written by the MPAA. The merit badge in "respecting copyright" will almost certainly not include any training on [a href="vny!://fairuse.stanford.edu/"]fair use[/a], anything about the fact that the film industry is located in Hollywood because that was a safe-enough distance from Tom Edison that the its founders could [a href="vny!://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/edison_trust.htm"]infringe his patents with impunity[/a]; that record players, radios and VCRs were [a href="vny!://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=532882"]considered pirate technology[/a] until the law changed to accommodate them; or that the entertainment industry enriches itself [a href="vny!://www.recordingartistscoalition.com/"]without regard for creators[/a], who are routinely sodomized through non-negotiable contracts and abusive royalty practices. I'm sure it won't mention the [a href="vny!://www3.ifctv.com/thisfilm/about.php"]anti-competitive censorship[/a] masquerading as the Hollywood "rating" system, or the way that the studio cartel's copyright term extensions have doomed the majority of creative works to [a href="vny!://eldred.cc/"]orphaned oblivion[/a], since they remain in copyright, but have no visible owner and can't be brought back into circulation. Bravo, Scouts -- letting an industry group brainwash the children in your charge is the only way you could sink lower than being mere [a href="vny!://www.boingboing.net/2002/10/29/eagle_scout_to_be_bo.html"]religious bigots[/a] -- now you're religious bigots who shill for a cartel of Fortune 100 companies. [/p][blockquote] Boy Scouts in the Los Angeles area will now be able to earn a merit patch for learning about the evils of downloading pirated movies and music. The patch shows a film reel, a music CD and the international copyright symbol, a "C" enclosed in a circle. [/p] The movie industry has developed the curriculum. [/p]"Working with the Boy Scouts of Los Angeles, we have a real opportunity to educate a new generation about how movies are made, why they are valuable, and hopefully change attitudes about intellectual property theft," Dan Glickman, chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, said Friday. [/p][/blockquote] [a href="vny!://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/10/20/entertainment/e110452D84.DTL"]Link[/a]
