ESA targeting elementary schools with anti-piracy message

Because that "Don't Copy That Floppy" campaign they forced on us at school(middle school 199?) totally worked.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-Xfqkdh5Js4
ARRRRRRR!

So they're teaching kids they can pirate games basically?

"Listen Timmy, if you pirate games, you're funding the criminals and they'll kill your Mummy and Daddy. You don't want to kill your Mummy and Daddy, do you? No? Super, then back away from the internet, son, there's a good boy."

Wow.... As if school teachers didn't have their hands filled enough with all the BS thats gone on with No Child Left Behind.

Why is it that everytime someone wants to change the behavior of society as a whole, they try to force it on the schools? Granted, it's the best way to reach people as a whole, but people need to wise up (ESA & JT) that children are raised by the people who brought them into this world (I.E. Parental Units/Test Tubes), not the schools.

I wonder if this curriculum will require a parental signature for the child to attend, kinda like Sex-Ed. Sure, it's not exactly the same thing, but it's still a moral issue. When it comes to morals, I should be the one teaching them to my kids. Not the schools.

~HotShotX

"Following on the success of D.A.R.E,... we now introduce A.R.G.H"

"Join the ©Team!"

You know copyrights are getting out of hand when they start copyrighting the word "team".

Give us a REASON to want the game and it's CD-key. Battlefield 2? Able to get online, and account advancement. Hellgate London? Able to play online, patches of content (for paying subscribers). WOW? playing online.

All games that seem worth paying for annd having a real copy have more than just the game itself. They have more content, or multiplayer, etc.

I think ninja mascots might work better.. :x

Greedy bastards.

You wouldn't steal a car.
You wouldn't steal a baby.
You wouldn't kill a policeman.
You wouldn't steal his helmet.
You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet.
You wouldn't mail the helmet to the grieving widow...
... and then steal it again!

I just have to say, Justin, that in an amazing pic. Very well done.

"In all fairness that doesn't make that much sense. This is indeed a moral issue, but not of the ambiguity of sexuality. I mean, warez is illegal and it's stealing."

*lol* Umm.. ambiguity of sexuality? Where's the ambiguity in "condoms prevent pregnancy"? That as opposed to "enjoying something without paying its creator for the right to enjoy it is wrong"? Copyright is MUCH more ambiguous than sex-ed. Most sex ed classes don't teach right and wrong about sex, they teach facts about sexual activity. The moral question is whether or not you believe the facts should be taught (and in my mind, anything that is a fact should not be prevented from being taught).

Should appropriately aged kids be taught the facts about sex? Yes. Should appropriately aged kids be taught the facts about copyright law? Yes. Should either one be brainwashed while they're still too young to have any clue about what they're learning? No.

Actually, thank you for bringing up sex-ed as a comparison, it makes for a very good discussion.

this ad stuff would've never worked on me

i justified my (mostly music) piracy because i had no money, and I could either download and enjoy it, or not. The maker wasn't getting money either way. So I figured that would be lame for me. And because of my piracy in past years I've gone out and bought some cd's of artists I found I liked. Can you believe that? Piracy made me buy more cd's than I otherwise would have.

Hey kid, I'm uh computah. Stop all the downloadin'.

Maybe if people didnt plunk down $59.99 for a 5 hour game they would be a little less inclined to pirate stuff.

Price the games accordingly. Rockstar's Table Tennis for example.

Uhg. Things like this only make me want to do the opposite of what they say, just to spit in their face. I mean, look at that face: http://www.jointhecteam.com/images/homepage_kid.jpg

It's terrifying. Also, his GBA has no d-pad.

AAAArrrrggg! We grow um young!

I am a student at california state university san marcos. Before we graduate, we must pass a computer competency test... one of the sections?

5) Define software piracy?

6) Why is software piracy an important issue?

7) What are some possible penalties associated with software piracy?

8) What rights are provided to you when you purchase a single user software title?

9) What are the differences between a single user license, a multi-machine license, and a site license for software?

10) You are an employee of a large corporation. You boss has just given you a major project for a very important client. You have a particular program you use while at the office. Your spouse has been at you about spending so much time at the office, but you have a deadline. Is it OK for you to take the software from the office and load it onto your computer at home so you can meet your deadline?

11) How do copyright laws apply in the instance of educational institutions and their students?

12) AARRRrrrrrrr!

Napster truly exposed us Americans to new genre's of music and games, from countries that we previously couldn't have imported from.

I remember getting both a "Don't copy that floppy" video, and a "Don't copy that CD!" Video which both don't make any sense to me. I pay 10-15 bucks for a CD so that I can own it, and then they want to tell me that I can't do whatever the hell I want with it? Once they figure it out that we want all the rights, leaving them with none, or nothing, they'll make some money. Until then, I can listen to any song I want to on youtube, free, and very quickly, and there is no restriction on where/when/how I listen to that song (or video).