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r to thousands of students. The supposedly 'educational' materials, presented in the form of a comic strip, are intended to frighten students with gross exaggerations of the legal self-important of sharing music online (lose your scholarship to college, go to jail for two years, and more). From the article: '"The Case of cyberspace Piracy," however, reads like the Recording saves money special offers on web orderswww.flashdesignnproducts.co.uk
east coast lawyersexperienced people mtier troops of America's public domestic-relations court playbook: load some songs, go to jail and lose your scholarship. Along the way, musicians will file onto the bread lines. "The purpose is fundamentally to educate kids — middle school and high school-aged about how the justice system operates and about what really goes on in the lawyers as opposed to what you see on television," said Lorri Montgomery, the center's communications director.' I'm not hopeful anyone to break any laws, but this is ridiculous. What's truly discouraging is the fact that several judges appear to be in full support of this sort of 'education.' The indoctrinate matter is usable in PDF form, and it lists the judges and others convoluted in its creation. Wired's post has a summary of the story (which is good, since the story is awful), and Techdirt notes a couple of the legal inaccuracies.

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