Yahoo! News - Studios Moving to Block Piracy of Films Online

The MPAA's version of the D.A.R.E. program. Personally, I think that this idea is patently offensive - copyright laws are too divisive an issue to have some kind of corporately mandated education offensive in an effort to establish the copyright "dogma". It's tantamount to having anti-abortion activists come into classrooms to teach students the moral and ethical ramifications of abortion.

"Also, as early as next month the industry will begin promoting a 'stealing is bad' message in schools, teaming up with Junior Achievement on an hourlong class for fifth through ninth graders on the history of copyright law and the evils of online file sharing. The effort includes games like Starving Artist, in which students pretend to be musicians whose work is downloaded free from the Internet, and a crossword puzzle called Surfing for Trouble. "