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+-   Nonprofit Sends Filesharing Propaganda to Students-> on Friday August 22 2008, @03:31AM palegray.net

Submitted by palegray.net on Friday August 22 2008, @03:31AM
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palegray.net writes "The National Center for State Courts, a nonprofit organization, has sent filesharing propaganda to thousands of students. The supposedly "educational" materials, presenting in the form of a comic strip, are intended to frighten students with gross exagerratons of the legal consequences of sharing music online (lose your scholarship to college, go to jail for two years, and more). From the article:

"The Case of Internet Piracy," however, reads like the Recording Industry Association of America's public relations playbook: Download some songs, go to jail and lose your scholarship. Along the way, musicians will file onto the bread lines. "The purpose is basically to educate kids — middle school and high school-aged about how the justice system operates and about what really goes on in the courtroom as opposed to what you see on television," said Lorri Montgomery, the center's communications director.

I'm not encouraging anyone to break any laws, but this is ridiculous. What's truly discouraging is the fact that several judges appear to be in full support of this sort of "education.""
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