Forget that badge for basketry, canoing, and fish and wildlife management. Now Boy Scouts can get one for pledging to be ethical when it comes to copyrighted content.

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has teamed-up with the Los Angeles Area Boy Scouts of America to offer a curriculum to help steer the young minds to avoid the fruitful temptations of illegaly downloading copyrighted material such as MP3s and pirated movies off of the Internet and peer-to-peer services.

You can access the curriculum here and press release here.

To earn the badge, Scouts must complete activities such as authoring a PSA or a brochure about why copyright is important and visit video sharing sites to identify which works are copyrighted and which aren’t.

So far, PRpulp’s favorite reaction from around the Web comes from Gizmodo. The post’s title: “I Will Do My Duty To Not Steal Crappy Entertainment.”

Now if the organization could ever get over the controversy surrounding its atheist, agnostic, and homosexuals policies, we’d be on to something.

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