Remember those Jack Chick “educational” pamphlets? These are the guys who tried to convince us D&D is from the devil.
It seems now that a completely different organization drew their inspiration from such pamphlets. The National Center for State Courts recently released a comic called “The Case Against Internet Piracy”. They claim that the comic will educate kids about how the justice system operates.
However, as David Kravets points out:
But the story line here is a miscarriage of justice at best — even erroneously describing file sharing as a city crime punishable by up to two years in prison. [...] Criminal copyright infringement is when somebody sells pirated works and not sharing on a peer-to-peer network. And it’s the federal government, not local cities which prosecute the criminal cases.
In other words, it’s inaccurate propaganda. Hey teacher! Leave those kids alone.
From: Nonprofit Distributes File Sharing Propaganda to 50,000 U.S. Students
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