Public Service Announcements in the medium of comics regarding the dangers of... well whatever the popular perils of the time are, have been hoisting well-intentioned gibberish on kids for generations. PSA comics have touched on everything from drugs, to smoking, to famine, and land mines.
The latest in a long heritage of comics urging you to do right comes without any super heroes or association with an established comic outlet like Marvel or DC. Justice Case Files really... is an in-house effort from the National Center for State Courts, which we can only assume is a front for the RIAA, the most dastardly group of super villains to ever grace the pages of a comic book.
This disgrace to the label of propaganda bulges with misinformation so dense you d have to bushwhack your way through its pages to find even a kernel of truth.
Issue one centers around Megan, a student with a file sharing addiction that puts her freedom and scholarship seriously? jail time isn t motivation enough? at risk. Megan is charged with Criminal Copyright Infringement by her fictional city government and faces charges at the state level that could net her a total of $25,000 in fines and 2 years in prison. Of course, in real life Criminal Copyright Infringement involves the selling of copyrighted materials, not peer-to-peer file sharing, and CCI is prosecuted by the federal government not local courts, but who s paying attention? Apparently, not the legal non-profit handing out this mumbo-jumbo.
You can download the entire comic in PDF form here, or for those with a taste for the ironic, you can search Limewire and BitTorrent.
