Downloading Is Mean! Content Industry Drafts Anti-Piracy Curriculum for Elementary Schools | Electronic Frontier Foundation

“This thinly disguised corporate propaganda is inaccurate and inappropriate,” says Mitch Stoltz, an intellectual property attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who reviewed the material at WIRED’s request. “It suggests, falsely, that ideas are property and that building on others’ ideas always requires permission,” Stoltz says. “The overriding message of this curriculum is that students’ time should be consumed not in creating but in worrying about their impact on corporate profits.” – David Kravets

Couldn’t have said it better myself. EFF: https://www.eff.org/mention/downloading-mean-content-industry-drafts-anti-piracy-curriculum-elementary-schools Wired article: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/mpaa-school-propaganda/