Yet again a wonderfully acronym named group that obviously and blatantly has nothing to do with any of the major copyright enforcers has decided to release an "educational" video about the dangers of copyright infringement.
The rather horrifically named "iKeepSafe" or the Internet Keep Safe Coalition (seriously, I mean... seriously) has produced a rather wonderful video aimed at sixth graders where everyday normal kids, whose parents are apparently successful songwriters and game programmers, very sincerely and earnestly talk about the importance of copyright.
I was going to embed the video for your convenience, but apparently copyright presents this important message about copyright being easily shared across the internet. Wow. It's at the link above.
Now this is not the first time something like this has been tried. I have seen web comics, pamphlets, wonderfully creative statistics and lets not forget the unskippable anti-piracy warnings on every DVD/Blu-ray that is legitimately purchased!
Seriously though, why are they wasting their time. The fact is that this will have practically no effect on piracy rates. The fact is that research has shown that people who pirate are more likely to spend more money on music, movies and games. The fact is that iKeepSafe is really throwing their money away, but not just for the reasons listed in this paragraph.
I'm sure they can get this guy pretty cheap...
He's gotta be down with the cool kids.
I will leave you with the following important message:
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