The international recording industry signed up a global children's charity Wednesday to promote its anti-piracy message to parents around the world, suggesting that many adults have no idea what their children are up to on home computers.
The International Federation of Phonographic Industries, or IFPI, will use record stores, supermarkets and schools, libraries and websites to distribute a leaflet aimed at educating parents. The organization's national subsidiary in the United States has been criticized for including children in lawsuits against people illegally downloading music from the Internet.
The pamphlet, "Young People, Music and the Internet - a guide for parents about P2P, file-sharing and downloading," has been created by Childnet International, a charity that deals with issues of child security on the Internet .
"This campaign is perfectly timed, and it is aimed exactly at the right audience," said IFPI chairman John Kennedy. "At a time when music on the Internet, both legal and illegal, is being made available everywhere, parents, now more than ever, need to be armed with knowledge about the opportunities and the pitfalls surrounding online music."
The leaflets will be distributed in 19 countries, including Germany, Italy, Spain, Singapore, the United States and Mexico.
The IFPI, which has been waging educational and legal campaigns against music pirates for the past few years, said that millions of young people are regularly downloading music from legal services.
Many others, however, are using illegal file-sharing networks, such as peer-to-peer networks that give computer users access to music files directly from the computers of other users on the network.
The London-based IFPI based the need for the pamphlet on research carried out by the London School of Economics that found while only one in 10 parents know how to download music, some 45 per cent of the 84 per cent of nine-to 19 year-olds who use the Internet regularly do so.
"Whilst children love the Internet and enjoy sharing music and other entertainment files, we believe that most parents have no idea how file-sharing works or what besides music is carried on the global file-sharing networks," said Childnet Chief Executive Officer Stephen Carrick-Davies.
The international recording industry has blamed the prevalence of illegal music downloading for severely crimping the legitimate profits due to artists and record companies.
The Recording Industry Association of America attracted criticism in 2003 when it included children in a series of lawsuits against illegal music file swappers.
The U.S. House of Representatives last year passed a bill that encourages the FBI to use Internet providers to forward warning letters to subscribers whose accounts are being used for illegally downloading music and movies. That provision is aimed largely at parents who may be unaware of their children's activities.
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Forget about drugs and sex......it's the copyright violations that REALLY bothers the government.
I'd rather have my child on the computer than out snorting lines and having orgies.......
Protect the children? How about protecting the music industry? That's what this is really about. This reminds me of the scam that Walmart has where you buy things to give to poor people. Where do you buy the things? From Walmart, of couse! Then they make out like THEY'RE doing something for the community when all they're doing is getting bigger profits. This is a crock, and a legitamate charity would have no part in it. And, they're going to have this in Libraries? A serious librarian will take one look at this and put it where it belongs: in the circular file (a.k.a. the trashcan)!
Protect the children? Most file sharers are college students.
My proof:
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/napster3.htm
College students doesn't care about piracy. You think parents care? LOL
what i dont understand about all the lawsuits that never happed is the legal system's way of handling it. many of the 'suits were against minors offically. yet it was the parents that had to pay money to settle out of court.
this part is what gets me. if a kid commits a crime (i.e. murder) why would the parents have to take the punishment as long as they were oblivious to the problem. i could see them going to jail if they handed the kid a gun and said "go kill him for me" but its not like parents are saying "go download this for me"
My parents know about all my music, movies, software i download and they dont give a shit
As I was leaving for work this afternoon, my kids were watching the Disney Channel. They are hitting the kids early, at cartoon watching age. Today an episode of "The Proud Family" was trashing file sharing. Putting it out there as theft, and taking over your life like taking drugs. The person behind this evil was a kid morpheus-like character. I didn't really get to watch it, but.... damn capitalism is an evil system of brainwashing.
“The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.” - Florence Nightingale
"The international recording industry has blamed the prevalence of illegal music downloading for severely crimping the legitimate profits due to artists and record companies. "
And yet they are posting record gains? What kind of fools do they think we are.
@Signa: I'm sure the RIAA doesn't want anyone to know how many of those lawsuits have been dismissed by the courts. Mostly they just hope the parents pay to keep their kids (and themselves) out of court. There's an embarassment factor here.
The RIAA can join the logging industry and go f**k themselves. (I'm in a bad mood today eh)
Originally Posted by Excrement_Cranium
i recently heard about that eps. my little sibleings are always watching the disney channel, but they always turn off the tv when the proud familiy comes on. they know its a piece-of-shit program and should be avoided like the plauge it is.
i said to the friend that told me about that eps that if they are going to be pushing political statments on kids in their programming, they should start telling kids who to vote for and that you cant trust anyone but the greedy corperations.
I'm not sure why most parents would care. After all, why wouldn't they want to download free movies, music, and games and save money to? My mother wouldn't have a problem with it. It would be more money to buy food with.
Tesla
thats how my parents are. they tell me to be carefull but they love what i bring into the house
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