Microsoft has sponsored MyBytes.com – a site to teach kids about IP law. Ostensibly it’s a site for letting those youngsters trade ring tones and the like, but really its mission is to spell out the dangers of stealing IP, pointing out that you can go to jail, etc.

The really funny part – when you sign up, you have to agree to a TOU that gives Microsoft rights to distribute your submissions. In other words, “Don’t steal from us, let us take your stuff for free instead!”

Very educational, assuming they teach kids to read the TOU before agreeing.

A fun fact: My internet startup was the original owner of the mybytes.com domain,and we built a virtual community site for college students. This was dead by late 2000, and it looks like the domain has had various squatters own it since then.

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