Avast Ye Downloads!
From Secret Millionaires Club · 2013
Summary
In this Secret Millionaires Club episode, when free downloads turn out to be pirated, the club learns that copying someone's music or work without paying is unfair to the people who made it — a digital-citizenship lesson about respecting others' creations. A ~22-minute animated story that makes a financial-literacy idea easy to drop into a social studies or economics lesson — with investor Warren Buffett as the kids' mentor.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
Use these after watching to talk through the money-and-business idea in the episode.
- Why is downloading something without paying for it unfair to the creator?
- What is the difference between a legal download and a pirated one?
- How does making an honest, legal choice online help everyone?
Quick work-a-long
Money words: download, piracy, legal, creator, fair.
Try it: List two things people create that you enjoy online (songs, games, videos). Write one sentence about why paying for them or using them legally is the fair thing to do.