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Aussies Face Jail Over MP3s
An anonymous reader writes "Two Australian students have been charged over music piracy offences, according to this story on Australian IT. It's short on details, but presumably they weren't running a P2P network. The maximum penalties for breaching copyright under Australian law is 5 years jail."
Five year sentence? Don't worry -- I'm sure their lawyers will be able to talk them down to a booting
5 years in an Australian jail!
So I guess the DMCA means that music fans really do get raped in the arse...
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5 years? That must be wrong. It's called MP3: M_aximum P_enalty 3 years!!
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So, take productive, tax paying, probably highly trained (computer geeks tend to be the biggest mp3 collectors) members out of your society, along with whatever money and goods they would be contributing back to the economy, and spend lots of additional money to store them in prision. Don't forget the fact that they will have a hell of a time finding work once they get out, couple that with the intensive criminal training they will receive by associating with known felons, and the end result is that you not only decimate your economy, but you breed a clan of highly intelligent uber criminals who would like nothing better but to run the state even further into the ground. Yeah, sounds like a plan. At least the RIAA will have enough money to hire 24/7 body guards to protect them when the world decends into anarchy... Well, at least until one of those newly trained bad guys gets his home made rail gun up and running...