Anti-sharing Comic = Ridiculous Propaganda

Remember when you were little and your parents taught you to play nice and share with your friends? Now the media monopolies are trying to break you of that habit.

Wired.com has an article on a comic developed by a non-profit called the National Center for State Courts.

Propaganda is probably too light of a term to describe this piece of propaganda.

We're referring to an educational comic strip (fat .pdf) on unlawful file sharing of music developed by judges and professors to teach students about the law and the courtroom experience.

It was produced by the National Center for State Courts, a nonprofit describing itself as an "organization dedicated to improving the administration of justice by providing leadership and service to court systems in the United States."

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.

The moralistic tone of the story reminds me of those scary religious comic-book tracts by Jack Chick. (By the way, here's a weird/funny parody of one of those comics. And here's another: Galactus meets Jack Chick)