UK Government Teaches 7-Year-Olds That Piracy Is Stealing

How about teaching adults to supervise their kids and regulate until the kids reaches an age where they can form an educated stance on the issue. 7 year olds downloading is an adults problem, not the kids...
 
The only people who would be worried about this is Hollywood basically trying to make money off Dwayne Johnson The Rock's latest movie.

Software always had to deal with this images once on the net are public domain.
 
I'll give you an example of how opportunity leads to piracy.

I bought Blade Runner 2049 on 4K UHD. It comes with the 1080p bluray and digital copy. I added the digital copy to iTunes and they gave me 4K version. So I have a backup that is 4K. The movie is unbelievably stunning, so I probably will never watch it in 1080p.

I have a friend that watches movies and we discuss these things frequently, but he won't go out of his way to acquire a movie. So I have this 1080p bluray that I will never use and I could just give it to him. At this point he is now in a position to watch a movie with the movie studio getting zero proceeds from it. The First Sale Doctorine legally allows for this. The downside is I would relinquish my usage of that disc while he has it.

But, on the other hand I have all the technology required to give him an EXACT copy of the movie. I can make an ISO of the bluray and burn it to a dual layer bluray. I can print the cover art on glossy cardstock. And my printer can also directly print onto optical media.

I can either give him the real disc and he can watch and I might get it back in 6 months to a year, in which time I will never have probably needed it. Or I can "pirate" a fully usable copy and give it to him and say don't worry, just watch it whenever. The movie studio gets no proceeds either way. Technology, and the movie industries decision to use compatible technology has simply made it within my threshold of ease to pirate.

I bet if you looked at the piracy rate of say iTunes movies, it probably is pretty low. Even within our household we are limited by the 10 device limit. I can't afford to share my account with anyone outside our family. I actually have to choose which computers or iDevices don't get access to my account. And using Audacity to pirate a song or album is still a pain in the ass. The easy part is the (timer) recording. Doing all the tagging and splitting afterwards is what takes time. I don't have time for that.
 
UK's gov is a worsening nannystate. From censoring your internet for you, to policing what cannot be done in your bedrooms, indefinite detentions on the premise that you're dangerous to society....
 
tetris42 said:
If you don't see the problem with this, I doubt you're going to. These are critical years for development. I'd much rather a student learn the fundamentals of life, physics, math, history v. understanding the subtleties of copyright law. Does a room full of 1st and 2nd graders really need a quiz to understand why watching a music video for free on Youtube is alright, but downloading that same video as an MP3 is wrong? Are their brains even going to understand that it is wrong, since it's not actually stealing, more like freeloading? To sum it up:

-They're too young for schools to be focusing on this. If they were 13, it might make more sense.
-It's taking time away from learning critical knowledge
-It's not something you can easily explain to a child why it's right and wrong. Why is it legal to watch the video on Youtube for free with adblocker, but not download the MP3? Is it ethical for the publisher to take the vast majority of the income, with a pittance going towards the artist? Why does the RIAA sue grandmothers for stealing music who don't own a computer? This is not as simple as "don't take Suzy's lunch, she was going to eat that."
-Out of all the real world problems we could be teaching students, this is close to the bottom of importance. What's more important, downloading an MP3, or learning about how a chemical manufacturer dumps toxins into the groundwater and makes people sick? I guarantee you teaching this at such a young age will come before anything related to pollution, which is far more important to learn about.

I think you may not realize just how bad the education system already is that it doesn't need a copyright agenda being pushed on top of that. It's not that it's wrong so much as it's the wrong priority. The majority of Americans don't know the 3 branches of government. 15% of American adults are illiterate. 1 in 4 thinks that the sun orbits the earth, I'm not shitting you. This should get a mention during a computer class for a later age, that's it. To prioritize not downloading an MP3 in children over basic understanding of the world just shows how much indoctrination there already is.
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the UK gov is not a noble gov. It is about making their populations sheepies for the corporations. This is just one of the tactics the gov has been using.

Start them young to cherish the corporations. Got to prepare them for the eventuality when all public services are owned by profit oriented businesses. (they are already in the midst of auctioning off NHS. )

the big target would be unions. With a hard brexit (either deliberate or incompetently negotiated ,your guess is as good as any), they can finally do away with that.
 
Software Piracy is copyright infringement, not theft.

Theft is when you remove something from someone else. Software Piracy is copying something, which does NOT remove something from someone else.

To say otherwise is either ignorance, or lying.
 
I have TBH,

Instead of just education why not hammer out the problem, inflation and crappy paying jobs are I am willing to say 60% of piracy cases as people can't afford it, maybe 10-15% of PC games that are pirated are done that way just to be able to play the game at reasonable fps due to crippling intensive DRM, Music well that has always been a screwed up industry no single song should ever cost past $3.00 at unreasonable bit rates or formats and the industry shouldn't be able to tell people in what way they can listen to their music.
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I will not condone piracy nor would I do it as a permanent means to obtaining something, yes I have downloaded an album listened to it and determined if the album is worth buying or just the couple songs I may like(and I will confess I bought the album and downloaded FLAC versions because I was 2 lazy), yes I have downloaded cracked games(DRM crap) but I always bought the game beforehand, Movies I never bothered with, Hollywood sucks hard in the past 15 years with overhyped bombs so I simply wait for people who saw it to tell me how it was.
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As for the people who can't afford it, tbf, you weren't getting the money either way, while it may not be 100% right, as long as when they can afford it they buy it, it should be a "In Good Faith" kind of deal , now the people whom have no intention of buying well they are the bad guys at the end of this.
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Its like any other tool tbh, a sword or a gun is made for the intention of killing, they serve absolutely no other purpose, Its the person holding them that determines how they are used.
 
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