Spy Kids, Live in Hong Kong

"Grandma, I am going to turn you in, and I'm not even sorry."

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Inspired by Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids movie series and probably Mao's Cultural Revolution, Hong Kong is enticing elite kid force to rat out their peers on online piracy.

Boy scouts will patrol online forums for any suspect copyright violations. They would report on their brothers, sisters, teachers, friends, parents, grand parents and grand grand parents if they dare to put any BitTorrent seeds out there so other people can listen to their horrid choice of Canto pops or whatever they think is oh-so-cool.

Other countries are immensely interested in this youth program ... or not.

Dean Boyd, a Homeland Security Department spokesman in Washington, said that the United States had no plans to introduce a similar program, partly because of liability concerns. Deron Smith, a spokesman for the Boy Scouts of America, said in an e-mail message that the group had no plans to ask scouts to report infringements to law enforcement officials.

Orginal article from the New York Times.