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Nonprofit Group Sends Filesharing Propaganda To Students
palegray.net writes "The National Center for State Courts, a nonprofit organization, has sent file-sharing propaganda to thousands of students. The supposedly 'educational' materials, presented in the form of a comic strip, are intended to frighten students with gross exaggerations of the legal consequences of sharing music online (lose your scholarship to college, go to jail for two years, and more). From the article: '"The Case of Internet Piracy," however, reads like the Recording Industry Association of America's public relations playbook: Download some songs, go to jail and lose your scholarship. Along the way, musicians will file onto the bread lines. "The purpose is basically to educate kids — middle school and high school-aged about how the justice system operates and about what really goes on in the courtroom as opposed to what you see on television," said Lorri Montgomery, the center's communications director.' I'm not encouraging anyone to break any laws, but this is ridiculous. What's truly discouraging is the fact that several judges appear to be in full support of this sort of 'education.'
The propaganda material is available in PDF form, and it lists the judges and others involved in its creation. Wired's post has a summary of the story (which is good, since the story is awful), and Techdirt notes a couple of the legal inaccuracies.
The best coverage of this has been on p2pnet.net, where Jon Newton has been trying to get answers out of these people as to (1) where this drivel comes from, (2) who is responsible for it, and (3) when is it going to be corrected or withdrawn? See, e.g, here, , and here.
But this one was my favorite.
Ray Beckerman +5 Insightful
Take the kids to a court if you want them educated about how courts work.
Can someone explain on that?
Also how is it legal to use legal institutions to spread a fake message?
And now we are on the topic this is not the definition of culture of fear?
i always find targeting children such an insidious method of control, i shouldn't be suprised at this move really.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
The message I get from the comic is "Get caught pirating, save someone's home". Also that copyright violations are handled as criminal complaints in city courts (???!!!)
Would anyone by any chance have a script that will email this to every single Congressman and everyone in the Whitehouse. It's a cartoon so Bush will understand it too.
Before modding me Flamebait, Troll, or -1 whatever please read this thread and article. Then mod away.
What is it with musicians and bread lines? It's not like they don't have a real job... /musician, replies, kick out of
Is anyone else reminded of Chick tracts? Share files and you go to hell...
"Take the kids to a court if you want them educated about how courts work."
Judge Judy taught me everything I needed to know.
They dream about:
I think their biggest wet dream to date is pretending that people will continue to pay obscene prices for music.
"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone." - Jack Valenti
Mod me double plus good!
That's my favorite band too!
Isn't intentional misrepresentation of the law an actionable offense (perhaps in some states, but not others)?
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
this propaganda is wonderful!
please, please, anyone who supports filesharing rights, do not stop the spread of this propaganda, it is guaranteed to backfire
your average college student can spot a bully and a bully's rationale. if this is their argument: do what we want or we'll hurt you, your average college kid can see the obvious moral bankruptcy in that, they will see right through this, and even better than that, if this is the best argument the RIAA's puppet organization can make, everyone can see the RIAA has no more argument at all
please folks, let them proclaim the hollowness and pointlessness of their dead end effort with this propaganda. college kids are receptive, they are listening, and they can smell bullshit. so this propaganda is GOOD for filesharing rights as it is a guaranteed backfire
i swear, it's reefer madness for file sharing
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I'll fight this by downloading more movies, music, and software over the internet. Heck I would even download a car or a clothes illegally off of the internet if i could ;-)
Isn't this like that D&D comic where the girl hangs herself ?
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Most state bars have requirements related to acting ethically. I wonder if those responsible for this pack of lies could be handled with a bar complaint?
It might not have a direct effect, but who knows?
this strip looks reminiscent of 'reefer madness', the propaganda film from 1936 that contributed to making marijuana illegal.
And remember kids, marijuana grows breasts on men! It's true! I saw it in a movie in the sixties!
"I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years." -- Warren Zevon
Really. When you have to resort to outright lies to protect your business model, doesn't that tell you something about said business model?
All I can think of is how relieved the grandmother was when she found out Megan wasn't pregnant!
That being said, legal action against you isn't a laughing matter when you are young. You don't have the money, you don't know what you are doing, and you don't know where to get help.
A parady on this would be nice. Something along the lines of,"File-sharing is not a victim-less crime..... Look at Megan."
I reserve the write to mangle english.
Here we see Hollywood studios regularly rob, cheat and steal from the people that work for them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2001/aug/31/artsfeatures
Here companies like News Limited trick the public into surrendering their copyright, giving them massive royalty-free photo libraries, all for the "chance of winning an iPod".
http://blogs.smh.com.au/photographers/archives/2008/07/read_the_fine_print.html
Orson Scott Card wrote this good piece on the hipocracy of the RIAA:
http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2003-09-07-1.html
http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2003-09-14-1.html
And for years, we the public have had our rights progressively eroded. Well-monied rights holders throw money at congress who turn around and keep extending their copyright. This reached an artform in the "Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act", otherwise known as the "Mickey Mouse Copyright Act". Yet Disney has quite happily argued against this when it suits them.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,17327,00.html
Well, eat this Disney: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mickey22-2008aug22,0,3228580,full.story
And then there was that DRM debacle... What's worst is countries like Australia spinelessly accepted the DRM laws as their own (and US patents being enforcable in Australia) all for a political photo opportunity with George W. Bush. In this way, these execessive new laws are spreading all over the world. And here we have Universities teaching one side of the Great Copyright Rights Grab. Why aren't they educating their students about both sides, instead of brainfeeding them RIAA propaganda?
Bottom line is: Congress doesn't work for you. It works for these guys. I don't see Congress ever saying no to MPAA slush funds, and treating IP the way the Constitution intended it too. So to hell with Congress and the MPAAFIA: Stupid Laws are made to be broken. I say torrent freely and torrent often. It's our very own digital tea party.
I'm waiting for webcomic artists to pen a rebuttal strip to this drivel. Something deliciously satirical and damning.
... ?
*searches again* Come on, there must be someone out there going to do a mocking comic of this. Perhaps in the second frame Richard Stallman could appear out of a cloud of 1s and 0s with a tight organic hemp superhero suit and give the girl a pep talk about her freedom in the digital world while smashing her iMac into bits and wiping the hard drive platters with ionizing radiation from his nostrils...
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
For one thing the IP of 25.369.46.251 can not even be a working one as they max out at 255.
But loose with the RIAA?
Even the way they phrase the eminent domain case. "The City is trying to buy our house." lol .. no they are not buying it, they are taking it at their price and if you refuse they are just going to take it and put you in jail.
What garbage, I hope kids are smarter than that. Unfortunately I have not a lot of faith.
Bringing liberty to the masses. - http://freetalklive.com/
I'm not encouraging anyone to break any laws, but this is ridiculous.
"Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law. "
-Henry David Thoreau
Personally I consider breaking unjust laws like this a civil duty, and I feel you should take your civil duty seriously.
They certainly know nothing about making an entertaining comic book.
They failed to keep me engaged.
I won't be waiting for a sequel, that's for sure.
The hilarity of how out of touch this is is on par with the Knock-Off-Nigel adverts.
My ass it is. Its to brainwash them so that the next generation will obey the orders of the media corporations of the world, and adjust the future laws.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
I know it sounds like high moral ground apple pie crap, but at this point it is true: it's time to stop giving money to companies that treat their customers and the public so shabbily. Fuck Sony. Fuck Universal. Fuck Warner Bros. Especially, Fuck Sony - they do at least double duty.
Find local theatre groups - go see live actors. Check out local bands - go see live music. Video games - well, I don't know what to there, but someone will have a suggestion.
I'm not interested in buying their crap, taking their crap, listening to their crap, pirating their crap, or watching their crap.
They're behind the people who sue. They're directly responsible for rootkit installations to support their DRM. They're behind the distribution of lies such as this material in TFA. Okay, well, we don't know the last part, but I'm guessing.
No Más. Let's spend our money buying entertainment from people who give a shit.
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I live in Texas, so here's mine:
Hon. Wallace B. Jefferson
Chief Justice
Supreme Court of Texas
P.O. Box 12248, Capitol Station
Austin, TX 78711
Dear Judge Jefferson:
Today it came to my attention that a group called the "National Center for State Courts", of which you are apparently a board member, has released a new comic book called the "Justice Case Files."
This book is full of legal inaccuracies and misrepresentation, claiming that internet file downloading is a state crime, punishable by years in prison, when in fact, this sort of copyright infringement is a federal civil matter.
I do not engage in copyright infringement; however, I am incensed at the malicious PR campaign undertaken by the RIAA and the MPAA, which apparently has co-opted this organization of which you are a board member. It makes the National Center for State Courts, and those associated with it, look foolish at best, mendacious at worst.
As I'm sure you are aware, rule 8.04(a)(3) of the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct requires that "a lawyer shall not ... engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation," and comment 7 on this section additionally clarifies that "Lawyers holding public office assume legal responsibilities going beyond those of other citizens. A lawyer's abuse of public office can suggest an inability to fulfill the professional role of attorney. The same is true of abuse of positions of private trust. See Rules 8.04(a)(2), 8.04(a)(3), 8.04(b)."
Please take a look at this comic. If you find it as laughably erroneous as I think you will, please do the right thing and publicly disavow its publication and use your position on the board to try to stop it. Believe it or not, several hundred thousand influential internet users are watching this issue very closely.
Thank you for your time and attention to this matter.
Best regards,
... share this with a few friends of mine?
Have gnu, will travel.
This is probably intentional, they do this whenever an IP address is mentioned in a film or TV show.
Obviously you haven't seen The Net with Sandra Sandra Bullock.
Maybe the creators of NBC's hits, Law & Order and Night Court should sue them for copyright violations... Honorable Judge Stone? Sheesh... They'd claim fair use I'm sure.
Why not make comics that represent the sad, pathetic truth of the fucked up legal system and unconstitutionality by the RIAA and MPAA? Hell, just edit this one and add the truth to it, like change the police officer giving here the trial notice to a money-hungry lawyer in a suit and tie, with $ signs for eyes. And add in some details in the end, so it says "I say it's good I got caught because some people don't get caught, which means they are hurting the (take out music industry) the artists that make music, because now they won't be able to afford their 10th Lear jet or 4th luxury sports car or huge mansion because people are waking up and realizing that this is BS."
Oh, and add some stuff about how the RIAA are demanding 9,250 times the "damages" the poor girl caused, and have the RIAA lawyers say "We don't give a fuck it's unconstitutional or not. This is America god damn it, and in America, we have a truly fucked up legal system where we, the legal representatives to the few conglomerates that control the entire media in the United States like Commies, can sue innocent people for not doing exactly what a certain industry wants us to do!
This bitch should have realized that we make you PAY so much money for music for a reason, because we WANT $$$$$$$. And yet she chose to get in the way of our capitalist dream, so she must burn in Hell!!! (but since we can't go that far, let's just sue her for 9,250-20,000 times the value of the music she downloaded). I mean seriously, if the government didn't have a problem with us harassing Sweden to shut down ONE WEBSITE FOR A FEW DAYS just for hosting LINKS to copyrighted materials (The Pirate Bay), what makes you think they'll have a problem with this? "
And, with the eminent domain BS (isn't that a thing Republicans love to do), edit the section and have the mayor come down to the house, with police officers armed with AK-47s saying "Get the fuck out of this house, it's the city's now biach! We take this house under Eminent Domain, SO GET THE FUCK OUT"
So once we make these comics, distribute them to all the collage students that received the lying propaganda!
Maybe I'm showing my age (no, I didn't see it when it was first shown), but this actually reminded me of Reefer Madness .
Prime numbers are exactly what Alan Greenspan says they are -S. Minsky
Correct,
They do the same in America with the 555 phone area code, it's so they don't list an actual number that belongs to someone.
An SQL query goes to a bar, walks up to a table and asks, "Mind if I join you?"
Has anyone thought of creating a honeypot full of songs THEY, and not the RIAA or their ilk own the copyright to, then busting Media Sentry when they download the songs/torrents? Seems like turnabout is fair play
Chaos maximizes locally around me.
My IP address goes to 11.
... and then they built the supercollider.
Dear God, that means it'll have the same preventative powers on those children as the anti-drug-sex-alcohol-tobacco propaganda!!
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Believe in Raptor Jesus, and ye shalt be saved
One man with a gun can control 100 without one
For some reason, this reminds me of the DARE education I received in jr/sr high school. At the time, I didn't do drugs (nor did any of my friends . . . we were all nerds). But I had this overwhelming feeling that what they were telling me was bullshit (at least parts of it).
"Marijuana is a gateway drug. If you smoke pot you'll be using heroin within a few weeks" Really? Those stoners who got high before school don't do heroin, and actually manage better grades than we do.
"If you share files you'll go to jail and your life will be ruined." Really? 2/3rds of my high school class illegally download music, and yet they haven't been harassed by the cops.
All stuff like this does is make kids mistrust authority. If they were honest--"Pot is okay in moderation, but heroin is really, really bad", or "having a few mp3s on your computer is not a big deal, but selling bootleg DVDs on the street corner is bad"--they'd probably be a little more effective.
The Internet is generally stupid
I read that part and wondered - where have I heard that before. Within mere picoseconds I had it - Army Recruiters! So now the secret is out as to where they go careerwise when the game's up and they get caught out intimidating young folks into signing up to get shot/blow up. Non-profit, hmm...??? I can smell the RIAA snake close by, wallet wide open.
The Jews controlled most RIAA/MPAA member companies. To hell with it.
They can use my IP address, then. I'll let them. It's 169.254.200.3.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
But you see it all the time in movies!
No sig today...
For one thing the IP of 25.369.46.251 can not even be a working one as they max out at 255.
Maybe that's the "555" of IP addresses.
They do not lie in the comic itself
In the comic, Megan, merely an end user, is being prosecuted for theft in criminal court. Has that ever happened in real life?
The comic definitely tries to convey to the reader that unlawful downloading can get you prosecuted for theft. That is a lie. They also are exceedingly misleading about who they are. While maybe that isn't fully a lie, they are certainly far from honest
PS: for the record, I do oppose the copyright violations of these kinds of "sharing".
Prime numbers are exactly what Alan Greenspan says they are -S. Minsky
I don't care what you think of copyright laws (and this includes the guy who posted the story and used the term)... it's not file "sharing". Sharing implies the consent of the copyright holder. I'm pretty sure the copyright holder didn't authorize you to distribute the work to 10,000 of your closest friends on Limewire. Calling it "sharing" is weasel words, and worse, it's hypocritical. If we find out a company using GNU software is violating the GPL (which is, face it, copyright), we lose our damn minds here. But when we say "file sharing" when talking about copyright piracy, it's somehow different. What would you say if Linksys used GPL software, violated the license, and then declared it "fair use"? I mean, who could argue against the words "fair use"? Fair use sounds as friendly as... file sharing.
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
In a way, we have been hitting them with a digital tea party... it's gone under different names over the years... Napster, Kazaa, Limewire.
However, it's not like our motives were exactly pure...
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
OK! So the music pirates will all go to jail for pirating music while all of the musicians will go to jail for smoking dope. That way the inmates can get their music and their fans all at the same time.
Tax payers may well see a bit of a problem with supporting all of these convicts.
Well, let's look at who owns most of the record industry today.. something that rhymes with "GOO".
That basically explians the moronic, mentally-ill approach RIAA uses to fight this futile battle. Nuff said..
That could well be intentional, to ensure they don't put an IP actually belonging to something or someone in the publication.
They could have used a non-routable IP as well, but they may not have had someone with the technical expertise to suggest this.
Ping timeout
"We do not want to minimize the impact of these crimes on the industry and artists, who are the victims."
It seems the comic text likes to bold 'Industry' but not 'Artists'.
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http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/ I didn't know.
Where the court appointed attorney is defending poor Megan...
New text should read...
Megan's attorney..."Your honor, the record companies are an illegal monopoly with 'unclean-hands,' any theft from them cannot be prosecuted because they obtained the rights to this so-called 'music' through illegal means. The music industry had engaged in illegal price-fixing, secret accounting, payola, thuggery and perhaps even murder to maintain their grip on new music creators. The artists don't have the opportunity to present their music directly to the consumers, and frequently don't even make any money off the albums they record. Musicians frequently see their biggest take while performing live shows, and don't receive money from the labels until they sell millions of albums. The system is rigged. The music cartel's complaint should therefore be discharged immediately."
Judge... "That's an interesting point..."
Attorney... "Your Honor, we're prepared to show that the record companies used illegal tactics to get the rights to each of the songs that the defendant has in possession. In fact, we'd like to see the accounting of record sales and proceeds to make sure that the band actually got their fair share."
Music industry lawyer...."That's going too far... my client doesn't have anything to hide, but we're going to hide it anyway..."
Megan..."You people are crooks, and I don't feel bad stealing from you one bit..."
Judge..."Case dismissed..."
Ack, PDF is the wrong format to use for something like that uses so much nontext information. It creates files that are too big. Which is why I took the liberty of converting it to DJVU.
Folks - I see these posts on Slashdot daily. Everyone loves to get shit for free. The final verdict is that file sharing is illegal. Go check the court dockets and judgments. It may be a difficult and expensive lawsuit for RIAA, but the law is on their side. Talk to your congressional representative or elected official to change the laws. That is all sorry.
Every now and then a shithead nazi group pops
up and try to influence politics and justice.
If you still have some of the red blooded Americans
I used to know kick them to the hole they crawled
from.
Nothing less nothing more.
I have no legal right to share copyrighted works by creating a copy. I do have a legal right to share a copy without creating a copy (since copyright means right to copy).
Hey, you redefine words to mean what you want, so will I.
And in any case, unless I commit fraud by selling you dodgy copies, this is only a civil issue encountered by breaking the contract which has already been broken several times by the holders of copyrights.
After all, if you get extended copyrights, that must be worth *something* else why would you ask for it? But that value has to come from us, so what do we get for it back? Nothing? Well, that's not a legal change to the contract.
Your UID may be lower, but my IP address is lower! 127.0.0.1
*opens terminal and types furiou
Down With Slashdot BETA!!! I've been around the corner and seen the oliphant; you can only abuse me from your perspecti
This will work about as well as exaggerated drugs "education" has. Tell the kids "One puff of weed and you'll end up as a junkie, living in a cardboard box" - and the kids see the flaws in your argument, go - "Yeah, right," and smoke up anyway.
Invalid IP address numbers are the modern day 555 numbers, for the same reasons
In the start of the PDF File is the following statement:
"Today, more than 200 years later, the Judiciary is the least understood of the three."
Not really, they are ONLY Supposed to enforce the laws as passed by the Legislative branch.
Seems pretty cut and clear to me.
--- Relax, that mass muderer is just trying to reduce our carbon footprint, one fetus at a time...
The infrastructure for all of those draconian penalties is already active and being used for minor pot possession charges. One strike and you can lose all federal aid, or be forced to go to prison and/or buy into some expensive re-education program -- I can easily see a "file-sharer's reeducation school" like a "traffic school" -- where students can go to get reduced sentences. The corporations are close to pushing for penalties like these already. The populace gets used to outrageous sentencing being the 'norm'. It is much easier to permanently control the under-class if they have a criminal record. It's easy to get people to ignore these abuses -- because most people feel it's not about 'them'. So it gives enforcers carte blanche to go after anyone they wish. The only think limiting full enforcement is prison capacity -- and they are constantly building new prisons. Just a matter of time.
It's already common knowledge that anyone can be arrested, *today*. There are so many laws on the books -- police will admit or sometimes brag -- that they can just tail someone long enough and eventually find something. Everyone violates the law. Many laws are aimed at particular groups of people with a particular agenda in mind. Reagan-era Republicans started pursuing a campaigning to "defund the left" -- in everything from individuals to organizations -- to waste their money or take it through legal penalties that the left was more likely to be hit with. Thus arose property forfeiture and mandatory sentencing for minor casual, recreational (or medicinal) drug usage.
Property forfeiture is the easiest to use, since the victims of the forfeiture have to prove the property's innocence to get it back at their own expense. They don't get a free lawyer because they aren't charged with a crime -- so that's the tactic the DEA is using in California against medical dispensaries. They come in and simply take all the money, equipment and stock -- usually equivalent to 100-500 thousand dollars. They also take property when they can -- and they make sure that landlords know that their property can be seized if they allow illegal activity on their property (if you think about it, that could be used to confiscate even rental housing of those possessing pot -- especially if more than one renter has been busted at a particular address. Of course property seizure is why all our state and federal parks now have become riddled with booby-trapped grow-farms. I doubt people will relocate their computers to federal parks -- but imagine if they implemented property forfeiture as a penalty for file sharing -- the computers obviously get taken -- but might they go for the house too possibly being tainted with money-savings from having "pirated" songs? What, they aren't pirated? Can we see your receipts? How about licenses for music like those for software -- then like the software companies have a sw license inspection company that goes around doing pop-inspections, could they make that work for music licenses as well?
All the infrastructure needed for these schemes is already in use in other areas -- just needs to be activated for music and video content. :-/
Did anyone else notice the moral of the story?
One thing is for sure - I'll never download music without paying for it again.
Notice that it's not "I'll never illegally download music again," or something similar. Instead, the comic attempts to create a firm association between downloading music and paying money, despite the loads of music that is legally available for free.
Sounds like an attempt to make readers feel like any downloading without paying is wrong.
"Anyone who [rips a CD] is probably engaging in copyright infringement." - David O. Carson
It's going to be here:
https://www.ncsconline.org/D_Dev/fotc/fotc_contribute.htm
At first I thought it was Dwight Opperman, but probably/maybe not. If it's not him, then it's surprising how cheaply you can get these people to pump out propaganda, but my feeling is that they're not naming all their donors there.
Do you have ESP?
it is propaganda, not propoganda.
this is my sig, there are many like it, but this one is mine.
Sorry guys, the glory days of excess are over.
It's either Cocaine OR Hookers. Not both.
I'm not an American, but by my understanding of American law, there is nothing wrong with this comic. It portrays the law accurately, in that copyright infringement can be punished as a criminal act under the NET act.
Certainly, it's a bit simplistic (a comic book doesn't seem to be the correct medium to portray the nuances of copyright law, though), but for the intended audience - who are much more likely to download music from popular artists whose works are protected under copyright (as opposed to older public domain recordings) - it seems mostly appropriate.
Certainly, materials like this would prevent the "innocent infringement" (that is, "I didn't know downloading music was illegal") defence that some of the people being sued are trying to use.
Since it seems perfectly acceptable for tripe like this comic to lie about the law and threaten file sharers with wholly illegal procedures, perhaps we could make a comic response directly to these executives and lawyers who ruin our lives. Here's a quick outline of a good response comic, which could build directly on the one above.
It starts immediately after the propaganda piece leaves off, except more realistically the prosecutor is replaced with an RIAA attorney. The RIAA attorney is on his cell phone, talking to some industry exec about how great the case went, while walking out of the courtroom. They both erupt into laughter as the attorney is walking down the marble stairs of the courthouse, when suddenly his laughter is cut short as a sniper's bullet turns his head inside out. The executive on the other side of the line starts panicking, saying "Are you there? What happened?", when a man in all black wearing a ski mask picks up the blood-spattered cell phone and informs the executive that his wife and children are being held back at his home. The man in the mask connects the executive to another masked individual at the executive's house in a three-way fun chat, so he can hear the screams and cries of his family as they are raped and murdered, one at a time. As his youngest child, the last family he has left, is slowly cut from ear to ear, a bomb explodes under the executive's desk. The moral of the comic: business execs shouldn't abuse the legal system to ruin people's lives. Perhaps the punitive measures described in the comic are illegal, and perhaps they are even a direct threat aimed at the target audience. What's the inherent difference between this and the propaganda piece above? The punishment dished out to poor Megan is about a million times worse than her "crime", how much worse is one family being murdered in retaliation for destroying the lives of 40000 families?
Somebody oughta make that comic.
Was contracted out to Jack T. Chick, no doubt.
Seems to me this'll just inspire some strips illustrating the arguments on the other side, and probably by better artists. I'd say this is the first volley in a war they really don't want to start..
Treat them like children. Everyone knows downloading media you havent paid for, or have legal permission to use, is a crime.
Now that I have finished writing this article - I believe I will go and take my spelling lesson or atleast how not to make typos'!
The RIAA would probably prefer a STEAK driven through the heart rather than a STAKE!
Then again it may help you remember this article when you are at the Walmart counter about to bu an RIAA or CRIA affiliated CD or MP3! :>)
Cliff D
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Ray Beckerman +5 Insightful
on the comic book debacle.
Ray Beckerman +5 Insightful