Hong Kong's Boy Scouts on copyright patrol

In Hong Kong and China, the newest Internet copyright police may brandish merit badges.
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[Maccess]

Nice. Send the kids after organized crime in Hong Kong.

Is the MPAA and RIAA gong to stoop that low?

I can just imagine the class action suits from all the parents of dead children in the coming years.

[Steve Jordan]

What are you doing, son?

"Lin Ho, what are you doing?" "Checking the Internet for illegal songs, Mom." "Really? And what have you found?" "Nothing yet. (snicker)"

[jabbotts]

ah they even have uniforms

just like those cute kids that all dressed the same in germany a few years back.. somthing-youth.. what was cute name they used now?..

Humour aside, this is almost as disconcerting as the report on university student volenteer groups "directing" public chat group discussion away from politically uncomfortable topics of thought.

Good to see a different approach to the dire threat of media sharing but this still isn't any better than the RIAA suing 14 year olds in the States.