It looks like the IFPI are shooting themselves in the foot with their latests propaganda campaign for kids.
http://torrentfreak.com/ifpi-advises-kids-to-use-limewire-and-kazaa/Together with the charity Childnet, IFPI recently launched a campaign to educate kids, teachers and parents about the dangers of filesharing. Ironically, the legal alternatives they suggest direct the kids to LimeWire, Kazaa and sites that sell hardcore adult movies.
The campaign’s leaflet (pdf) is distributed through schools and colleges, libraries, record stores, teaching portals and websites in 21 countries. It advises kids and parents about the dangers of filesharing, and advises them to use the legal music online stores, which are listed on pro-music.org, with the aim of keeping kids safe online.
I was of course curious about these legal stores, and since i’m from the Netherlands, I decided to give the Dutch legal stores a try. This turned out to be an interesting experiment.
To sum up my legal music experiment. I tried the first 6 sites advised by IFPI, 4 didn’t sell any music, the fifth only listed a few songs, and the sixth website I tried advised me to install LimeWire or Kazaa. It gets even worse further down the list where the kids end up at sites that sell hardcore adult movies.
I find this disgraceful, we all know how inquisitive kids are, and to give them a list of unsuitable sites and on top of that link to hard core porn vendors is frankly reckless beyond belief, what are they playing at, I,m maybe thinking IFPI stands for
International
Fedration of the
Porn
Industry.
I hope someone sues them for linking to this despicable material, according to the IFPI, linking is the same as facillitating.
