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Youth League for Monitoring Internet Piracy

As the Hong Kong, the aspheads are adopting the tried-and-tested tactics of the most successful totalitarian regimes in history, and signing up children to look out for and report copyright violators.
The youngsters, part of uniformed groups like the Scouts, have been invited to join the Youth League for Monitoring Internet Piracy, which will be given a trial run next week.
If they notice anything that infringes on copyright, such as the illicit uploading of files, they can contact customs through a dedicated website.
Apparently 200,000 children have been signed up.

There are 1 comments on "Youth League for Monitoring Internet Piracy":

Posted by: amby http:// Fri Feb 3 17:44:24 2006

I did something like this for a summer job last year actually, in exchange for crappy pay and a lousy T-shirt. Basically they send you a list of songs and you look for them on WinMX (which people in HK still use for some reason) and the usual bittorrent sites. I have no idea how any of this info can be useful since most of the uploaders are in china anyway.

Anyway,the people they bust will be uploading canto pop (which has a higher proportion of trash than western pop in any country), HK film (only one of which will be worth watching in any 2 year period), TV soaps, nintendo and the odd American mainstream pop act or blockbuster. Nothing to lose any sleep over, guess we will just have to go back to the pirated dvd shops then.