British Association of phonogram producers (British Phonographic Industry, BPI) were up in arms on the website of one of the projects at mit, is devoted to the programming language Scratch. It is aimed at children aged 8-16 years and is a visual object-oriented programming environment for teaching students of Junior and middle classes.

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British Association of phonogram producers (British Phonographic Industry, BPI) were up in arms on the website of one of the projects at mit, is devoted to the programming language Scratch. It is aimed at children aged 8-16 years and is a visual object-oriented programming environment for teaching students of Junior and middle classes.

Created in it projects are posted on the domain mit.edu to the holders have been sent to almost 40 thousand complaints, of which 39 555 — on behalf of BPI. Their attention was drawn to musical compositions used by children in their projects. It turned out that young programmers don't feel ashamed to put in their work, the tracks are copyrighted.

As noted by TorrentFreak, the number of requests for content removal makes scratch.mit.edu one of "the pirate sites". Complexity adds the fact that children do not fully understand, what is Internet piracy and why they can't use their favorite music. However, Scratch has deals with copyright holders. At the same time, its creators hope the judicious lawyers BPI.

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