IFPI Advises Kids to Use LimeWire and Kazaa
Written by Ernesto on May 11, 2008Together with the charity Childnet, IFPI recently launched a campaign to educate kids, teachers and parents about the dangers of filesharing. Ironically, the legal alternatives they suggest direct the kids to LimeWire, Kazaa and sites that sell hardcore adult movies.
The campaign’s leaflet (pdf) is distributed through schools and colleges, libraries, record stores, teaching portals and websites in 21 countries. It advises kids and parents about the dangers of filesharing, and advises them to use the legal music online stores, which are listed on pro-music.org, with the aim of keeping kids safe online.
IFPI proudly announced their new campaign a few weeks ago, writing: “The campaign comes as millions of people take advantage of the explosion of new ways of accessing music digitally, but still lack clarity on safety and legal issues, on finding legitimate sites, on the basics of copyright and on how to unpick the jargon of digital music.”
IFPI has always been concerned with the safety of children, and on pro-music.org they maintain a list of download stores that are ’safe’ to use. I was of course curious about these legal stores, and since i’m from the Netherlands, I decided to give the Dutch legal stores a try. This turned out to be an interesting experiment.
To my surprise, the first 4 sites on the list were all gone, some had quit, and others redirected to websites that didn’t sell any music. Even worse, commodore.nl -the first site on the list- served ads for a scam site that sells filesharing software.
I finally got something that looked like a music store when I got to the fifth link, dance-tunes. However, when I searched for the latest Radiohead album, nothing came up. The site only has a few mp3s, and nothing of my choice.
The journey continued, and with sixth site, download.nl, I finally found some good music. Interestingly however, the songs I found were not for sale. Instead, I was advised to download LimeWire, Shareaza and Kazaa Lite. This may indeed sound a little confusing, but the IFPI apparently wants kids to use filesharing software after all.
So, to sum up my legal music experiment. I tried the first 6 sites advised by IFPI, 4 didn’t sell any music, the fifth only listed a few songs, and the sixth website I tried advised me to install LimeWire or Kazaa. It gets even worse further down the list where the kids end up at sites that sell hardcore adult movies.
Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media said about the new campaign: “The new guide is a very good example of an initiative that offers simple, practical advice to parents and teachers to keep young people safe and legal while enjoying music on the Internet.
I guess she didn’t try it herself.
Screenshot of a music “store” promoted by IFPI
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HAHA! :D
this relly realy! make my day ^^
@1
You said it!
what a terrible article. this is the kind of crap i expect from he Metro or the Sun.
seriously stop with all the tabloid style bollocks.
“Doesn’t that theoretically mean that so long as you have that pamphlet, you can download anything from Limewire etc, and if you get accused of copyright infringement, you can flip the tables and say either that they approve of it, or it was entrapment?”
Actually, that’s a good question. I think, by the letter of law, it would be entrapment. You could also point out “Hey, I went to these sites you said gave legal music downloads…. and it told me to install the VERY THINGS THAT YOU SAID I SHOULDN’T USE! What’s up with that!?”
” 53 May 12, 2008 at 09:47 by mysogynistic bumsplat
what a terrible article. this is the kind of crap i expect from he Metro or the Sun.
seriously stop with all the tabloid style bollocks.”
Tabloid style bollocks…. Hey, WE GOT A SHILL HERE! Please, do you think you are fooling ANYONE with you rants, IFPI paid poster?
You are not fooling me, you are not fooling my parents, and you are not fooling anyone else!
suck my dick a virus site
They obviously follow this blog, for they have cleaned up their list of sites!
This is propaganda, nothing more.
May Porn and hardcore rule the internet!!!!
LOL
Kazaa = spyware !
Torrent = freeware !
galeradofundao
Thanks IFPI! I know its OK now.
i hope a mod sees this…….
does TF have an IRC channel?
notsojollyroger - yes, kinda. #torrentfreak on EFnet
list for Sweden
Ahlens
Bengans
Blip/TV4
CDON.com Sweden
Dotshop
Eclassical
Ginza
Göteborgs-Posten
Homeenter
iTunes Sweden
Klicktrack
Lunarstorm-Rookie
Media Milkshake Sweden
Megastore
MSN Music Club Sweden
MusicBrigade
MTV
MusicStation
NajzPrajz
Petsounds
Poplife
PLG Media
Skivhugget
Sound Pollution
Telia
Tre
“T e” then “T r”?!
Is ifpi even unable to spell the alphabet? p comes clearly before r!
TPB
I always thought adult adversitments should be addressed by the P2P community. That way, sites like ISO Hunt, Demonoid ect will be more kid friendly. Less ammo for the MPAA against Bit Torrent sites. I know they provide financing but getting Bit Torrent even more popular and mainstream should maybe trump adult advertisments.
@ #54
They didnt clean it up fast enough, knew they were going to edit it so i saved a copy or the original at ezee.se :))
And since it was a leaflet that was freely distributed they cant come after me with copyright or whatever… i just choose to keep the old copy… and offer it to everyone & anyone who wants it :p
cheers!
http://www.ezee.se/
kid: mom,…look,i’m playing with myself !!!
Yep, shite sites with no music, perhaps then kids will realise that the latest Brittney is utter crap, get into BT and get into some decent music that people actually will be willing to pay money for!
The third on the german list links to BILD.de — OMFG! Thats not a music portal, that’s gutter press!
We all know where the IFPI stand on equating linking to facillitating an activity, lets see the same rules applied to them and ask the authorities sue them for attempting to facillitate the transfer of pornography to minors.
Worthless sacks of …
A few considerations (I read the pamphlet):
1)”They can also be at risk of leaks of personal
details possibly resulting in identity theft.”
hmm… i would think you are much more likely to have your credit card info stolen if you buy music than if you download it for free.
2)”Get them to
think about why respecting copyright is like respecting rules on
plagiarism.”
this is interesting to me. how in FUCKING HELL is downloading free music in any way like plagiarism? (unless, of course you seed that music claiming to be its creator, which i doubt)
3)just a plug for a torrent i created after reading this:
x13584-6523sjt-credit_card-money(legit).sd1365.txt.torrent.exe
for those of you interested just search it on TPB*
*lolz i fuled u its a troejin
Has anyone actually looked at the leaflet? White text on a white background, not exactly readable. They also misuse capitals. And the actual info is complete shat anyway.
this is typical fail on the part of the anti-piracy people. its laughable.
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