Comments on: Anti-Piracy Groups Target Australia’s Children

By: Pioneer

Pioneer — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:41:20 +0000

As an Australian who long since finished school I feel safe to say that this is a waste of time for all involved. Firstly, most Australian schools are terrible. Most of the education is up to you because you will learn bugger all otherwise. Potential teachers in ym state need an OP (like a grade average) of 19 (out of 25, 1 being the best) to get a teaching degree. Talk about the blind leading the blind. They probably need the anti-piracy people to come give a talk to take up the lesson plans or lack thereof.

Secondly, it won’t stick. The second they leave school they will mingle with the people who were not in school at the time of these “teachings”. What do you think is going to happen? Yup. Start downloading movies and songs that they cannot find elsewhere.

Good going Australia! By the way, how is that giant firewall going…

By: BLOB

BLOB — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:04:19 +0000

iPAF? Am I the only one who finds this enigmaticly amusing? (double meaning involved :) )

By: Fox

Fox — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:46:54 +0000

Atleast their acrynym is accurate.
I Preditct A Fail.

By: amareus

amareus — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:48:02 +0000

This is the lost generation all over again.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:50:14 +0000

“It will be our job to educate, and to create understanding and appreciation of the value of intellectual property to that end.”

She means, we will create our customers of the future. Obviously brainwashing people is the way of the future, who needs to think for himself anymore…

Ask not what ur country can do for u, ask whether ur country and it’s businesses need another slave!

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Links 04/06/2009: UNIX Turns 40, New KDE4 Released | Boycott Novell — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:10:24 +0000

[...] Anti-Piracy Groups Target Australia’s Children Several prominent film and TV anti-piracy groups and other industry bodies have teamed up to create yet another group, this time with the aim, among other things, to teach Australia’s children that copyright infringement is wrong. [...]

By: Blood of the Martyrs

Blood of the Martyrs — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:16:26 +0000

Too late. IMO the younger Aussie generation (yes, I’m an Aussie), at least the majority of them, see nothing wrong with downloading/sharing files.

AFACT, mark my words, younger Australians will not give a damn about your education attempts – it’s simply too culturally ingrained.

Oh, and AFACT, take your fricken lawsuit against iiNet (an Aussie internet co.), and spend the $$$ on charity instead.

By: M@

M@ — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:11:19 +0000

Good.
M@

By: bleh

bleh — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:21:28 +0000

69!!

By: huh

huh — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:44:22 +0000

Joe Camel and his “peddling cigarettes to kids” = bad, but somehow media companies “peddling ideas to children” = good. I ask one question: WTF?

By: Save The Children

Save The Children — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:21:27 +0000

“Sharing is wrong, greed is good.”

That’s copyright propaganda in a nutshell.

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Goonanism » links for 2009-06-03 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:29:43 +0000

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By: iShare

iShare — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:15:59 +0000

We need to bring in laws to make it treason to spread propaganda in places such as schools and workplaces….

By: Someone

Someone — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:33:33 +0000

“… encourage children to take the opinion that piracy has nothing but a negative impact, …”

In other words, they want to brainwash children with false information serving their own good?

By: TerribleTony

TerribleTony — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:01:40 +0000

Just like teaching anti-drug messages in schools reduces overall worldwide illegal drug consumption (the worlds second-largest market, after guns). ;)
Good luck, IPAF, it will cost a ton of money for no real gain. In fact, it could very well have the opposite effect.

By: Meh

Meh — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:19:50 +0000

Honestly most people dont really care. If they download something most of the time if they couldnt download it they wouldnt buy it anyways. Downloading software and other stuff most likely helps the industry in one perspective that if that movie was actually any good and wasnt like Epic movie and many other spin off’s they may actually buy it.

Good Luck with your painfull job.

By: hot sex gary

hot sex gary — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:41:10 +0000

we also need to tell them that having sexual thoughts is evil, and if they don’t believe in god then they will go to hell when they die

By: Anon4034

Anon4034 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:02:58 +0000

Can these people understand the concept of teaching forbidden knowledge?

I didn’t know anything about “piracy” or the lark until late teens. Until then, I bought it if i knew it was good. All they are really doing is going

“Hey! Hey Guys! you outta money! Don’t go Here, Here, or Here to download it for free! We’re serious! we’re the internet Po-Lice”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:39:03 +0000

Funny how the Hitler youth had the exact same idea.
Educate the children.

By: WON'T SOMEBODY

WON'T SOMEBODY — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:21:43 +0000

THINK OF THE CHILDREN???!!!