YouTube runs a reform school for copyright violations

Copyright School has been open for three years, but unless you're one of the more than 1 million offenders who've had to attend, you probably don't know about it.

Of those who have watched the video and offered either a thumbs-up or thumbs-down, 80% go thumbs-down. The tutorial, starring Russell the pirate sea otter and Lumpy the moose provides such counsel as "Uploading someone else's content without permission could get you into a l-o-t of trouble"; there are also the obligatory qualifiers about how the law does permit limited "fair use" of copyrighted material, but they're so general and read at such a breakneck pace that not even Oliver Wendell Moose could comprehend it.