Schools Overfunded or Struggling With Fewer Resources?

Submitted by bitflipper on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 9:52pm

Are schools overfunded or struggling with fewer resources? That's a pretty big contradiction there. I have a feeling they're overfunded because they're funded with our property taxes which keep going up and up and up even when our values are going down

I read article after article about the aggressive actions of the RIAA and MPAA but I never hear anything about copyright law being changed. Some of us have purchased the same content multiple times on different media - cassettes, vinyl, and CDs. VHS tapes and DVDs. CD prices continue to hover around $16 which is outrageous for a collection of songs which in all likelihood only contains one or two good ones at most. The problem continues with CDs, MP3s, DVDs, software, and now e-books. We can logically conclude these high prices are due to collusion between the music companies.  

I think this is a serious issue because young people are just encouraged to find other illegal avenues for obtaining content. Young people are becoming thieves and don't even realize what they're doing.  

The obstacle preventing copyright reform legislation is the lobbying power of these huge industry organizations on our politicians. Hey, just like the banking industry and probably others. Unless we rid DC of lobbyists, I don't expect anything to change...for the better anyway.  

Trademark, copyright and patent law is broken. We all know that. We have only a few choices - pay the piper, become thieves, or do without. I've mostly purchased used CDs lately, but now I have a personal challenge to go one year without purchasing any music. I have ten more months to go. 

So I ask you where are the solutions? Is it enough just to write about the problem? Who is working on a plan to fix these laws?

 

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</giving a shit>

Submitted by gendoikari1 on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 2:37pm

</giving a shit>

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The Red or Blue pill?

Submitted by Black Lable 69 on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 1:58pm

Might as well start teaching religion in School if thats the case.

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Give it up MPAA, EFF, and everyone above.

Submitted by colinjm0517 on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 12:52pm

This is messed up on so many levels. This only enforces the rule "trust no one" and makes people rebel even more. Teaching kids biased info about anti-piracy, simply retarded at a new level. This is a new low, even for the MPAA, EFF, BSA, and everyone listed above. I wonder if they'll teach kids to accept DRM (which means brainwashing them, which SHOULD BE ILLEGAL) I will NEVER buy DRM-infected content again. (yes, I regard digital restrictions management as a form of spyware/ virus that infects innocent files). Any infected content I have will be liberated and disinfected, then converted for my use (I AM NOT a PIRATE). DRM only hurts the average comsumer who obeys the laws. Pirates don't use DRM, and therefore aren't affected by it. Besides, they remove it before distrubting stuff. DRM is a virus, the creator should be proscuted and jailed like any other virus creator, all infected content should be liberated, and all affected computers/ devices/ content should be repaired, all at the expense of the people who put the DRM on the content in the first place. The bell tolls for the death of DRM (hopefully).

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"Or, hopefully, it will all

Submitted by Gremsongs on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 12:38pm

"Or, hopefully, it will all get ignored by teachers, and kids will hear
band instruments, poetry, or the hissing of Bunsen burners."

 

We can only hope. 

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