SYDNEY (Hollywood Reporter) - D'oh! Australia has the dubious distinction of being the first country in the world where "The Simpsons Movie" was pirated, with an illegal Internet copy of the worldwide hit traced to a man who allegedly used his cell phone to record the movie at a cinema.

The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) said Friday that a 21-year-old man from Sydney, the country's biggest city, was arrested the day before in relation to the unauthorized recording and uploading and charged with copyright theft. He faces up to five years jail.

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The rapid expansion of the definition of intellectual property continues unabated, with the RIAA taking the battle for hearts and minds directly to the auditorium of your kid's school.

The RIAA has teamed with iSafe, "a nonprofit organization that teaches kids, teachers and parents how to be safe on the Internet, with topics such as awareness about predators, not to give out too much personal information, and the risks of getting on P2P networks."

Sounds fine so far. When you add in the idea of the RIAA feeding iSafe the propaganda and iSafe in turn showing up to your kids school under the guise of saving them from MySpace predators, only to tell them about how music wouldn't be made if the RIAA didn't get thier cut, it becomes something quite different.

Obviously the information presented will be biased in favor of the industry, and I'm going to go out on a limb and bet that no one will talk about the crappy record deals your kid's favorite artists are living with.

Beware, and if iSafe is coming to your kid's school, maybe you should drop in so you can drop a little science of your own.

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