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Tag this under general WTF-ery. During slow news days, and you need to get stuff, you start looking for the weird. This bit of "news" basically ties in with anything relating to copyright, intellectual property rights, and piracy. That means this touches upon anything you download online, from game demos to and homebrew goodies... well sort of.Get this: Boy Scouts in the Los Angeles area will now be able to earn a patch for learning about the evils of downloading pirated movies, music, and other material on the internet. What does the patch look like? Look at the image on the right.
The scouts will be instructed on the basics of copyright law and learn how to identify five types of copyright works and three ways copyrighted stuff can be stolen. Activities for the scouts include visiting a movie studio (to see how much money employees lose due to piracy) and creating public service announcements urging others to be good copyright observing people.
So will kids carrying PSPs that have questionable media in it or gamers with mod-chips in their consoles start saying "Run! Here comes the boy scouts!" ...or something like that?
We know, we know, there are arguments as to whether or not things like mod-chips, hacks, emulations, homebrews, and even plain YouTube videos infringe on intellectual property rights. It just came to mind that given recent news - the ones about console companies filing lawsuits left and right on grounds of infringed intellectual property rights - perhaps instead of them spending money filing law suits, they could just send creepy Boy Scouts to the offending party to "weird them into submission."
Ergh. We should stop eating bad pizza before. I'm ending this before anyone thinks I'm drunk.
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Don't the boyscouts have anything better to do. I thought they just dealt with getting kids to appreciate the great outdoors. This is the stupidest badge I've ever heard of.
***** when I was in Boy Scouts, we played smear the queer, and by god it almost completely smeared all the queer right outta me.
I promote file sharing amongst peers who belong to an organization. It's like a club. I am against recieving those files from a centralized source. Just my opinion...It's not illegal to share files...
That's kinda... err... dorky. Hehe... besides, how are they so sure that those kids somehow aren't downloading porn on torrent sites? He he. XD
... but this badge is retarded. Badges were earned by learning how to start fires, and how to ID poisonous plants. How does the 'I do not download illegally' training help on a campout? This badge is just a beer coaster...
I'll bet most of them did it before the training and most of that group still does. What a waste.
i've been in scouting all my life and i'm now a junior leader here in south florida. and i have to say this is the dumbest badge i've ever heard of and this is in no way supported by the National Boy Scout office. this is just something that one council decided to do. it will never go national because this isn't what boyscouts is about. yes we are taught to be truthful and not steal, but it has nothnig to do with downloading music or videos. it's about in real life. honestly this was probably just that concil trying to get some money donated from record/movie companies so they made this patch.
Its L.A people, you know those Holly-Wierds down there and their crazyways
You guys forget one thing.... Back when we did boy scouts, it was actually cool. The past 10 years it has changed completely: How so, you might ask? IT'S RUN BY A BUNCH OF ASS POUNDING, CHILD TOUCHING, HAMPSTER PETTING, CHECKING OUT THE LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL LIKE A CHESTER, HOMO'S.
Back when i was in scouts here in Cape Town South Africa we learned cool things like how start a fire on top of water and what was the best way to smear apposing camps - that being raw eggs and flour and the turning off of hot water geysers - but this is just pathetic...
THEY SHOULD HAVE AN ASS-POUNDING MERIT BADGE. BECAUSE THAT'S THE ONLY THING THESE NEW TROOPS DO.
this is the best article iv ever read this made me laff so much, maaaaan boy scouts are gay
Cmon guys, do you actually believe that none of those little kids have ever downloaded a single mp3. I find that hard to believe.
...I think copyright laws. Go boy scouts!
sounds like the merit badge idea thinker was running out of ideas. - the requirements are a bit much - to make a public announcment and declare you are not a pirate? i think i would quit scouts and join the online sensation WoW.
I would be the only one that doesnt have that badge, and i would be proud of it.
The next patch is a patch for not having any patches.
That is stupid. I agree with neok
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