The theft / copyright of movies and computer programs is so similar and we teach that topic in Grade 10. It obviously was not taught well enough or … I wonder if in other schools learners also copy/steal movies. Is it widespread?
Friday, October 2, 2009
District 9 and Copyright
I was very disturbed to find a copy of the movie District 9 on a learner’s flash drive. Apparently it had been available at a LAN party. It seems that all the advertising about the theft of movies, at the start of movies in the cinema or on video, is just not going into the learners’ heads.
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This is very common. Divx drives, video drives or media drives make it very easy to copy and store movies. These then "migrate" to flash drives quite quickly.
The old thing of "But, everybody's doing it". And that is a fact. I find content like that on a regular basis.
Where must I start. Movies not out on the big screen appear on the workstations! Games with a size of 1.5gig! My problem is to keep it of the workstations. Don't know how to write policy to stop them downloading games onto the workstations. Major problem, because when they start playing or watching the network slows down. The school can not afford expensive programs to stop and monitor the pupils. I don't even want to mention the amount of virusse also being downloaded onto the pc's. Loaded our virus program this afternoon onto all the pc's for the matric exam. One pc had 253 virusse. It is a endless battle, but what a great subject. If anyone know of a free or affordable monitoring program please contact me.
Johan & other cat educators: Monitoring software: try italc 1.0.9 out. U cant go wrong.
Download open source.
Thanx
Bernard (Eastern Cape)
You are only scratching the surface of copyright issues, refer to www.piratebay.org if you want to see how widespread this issue is
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