Piracy fight taken into US kindergartens

Hollywood movie studios and music labels are taking the fight against illegal content sharing to five-year-olds by sponsoring a new anti-piracy curriculum, which will be trialled in California schools.

The curriculum, which will be aimed at elementary schoolchildren in kindergarten to sixth grade, has the support of the Motion Picture Association of America, the Hollywood lobbying group that represents the big film studios, and the Recording Industry Association of America, which represents music labels. The Centre for Copyright Information, which was formed by the MPAA, RIAA and five US internet service providers – Verizon, AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast and Time Warner Cable – sponsored Internet Keep Safe, a non-profit group, to draft the curriculum.