Anti-Pirates Scare Kids with Propagandistic Comic Book

The Motion Picture Association has sent one of its big shot lobbyists to New Zealand to advocate tougher anti-piracy legislation, and to promote a propagandistic comic book set be handed out to thousands of local kids. Torrentfreak reports.

Interestingly, the comic doesn’t touch the subject of copyright. Instead it uses false threats to scare children and parents about the dangers of file-sharing.

Titled “Escape From Terror Byte City” the book tells the story of two young boys who attempt to download the latest Transformers movie from a P2P website. Of course, when the two fire-up their file-sharing software all hell breaks loose.

... A scanned copy of the full comic book is available on Mininova. This one’s going to be a collectors item, for sure.

emily | 1:17 PM | Copypright Issues |
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