More Jail Time For Computer Crime Starting Next Month

An anonymous reader writes "Washingtonpost.com is running a detailed story about how new changes to the sentencing guidelines will increase jail time for most computer crime cases, starting November 1. When will the feds learn that raising penalties isn't going to deter this type of crime? The piece ends with a quote from uberhacker Kevin Mitnick saying just that."

Comments

Horray! We need to catch these crooks

[Billly Gates]

I was so horrified when I heard about IP espianage by singing this song!

How many jobs have been lost thanks to someone singing about how to play their own DVD's they own!

This is so horrible. Before you know it they will be making illegal pirated versions of Unixware just from 60 lines of code that happen to be part of the same algorithm! It only takes 60 lines of code to turn a bicycle into a car folks! The highly respected non biased IP expert, McBride said so.

But just like were winning the war on drugs by increasing prison sentances we need to do the same here. After all drug use can not possibly be on the rise because everyone assumes they are going to be caught and big bad prison sentances scare them.

Re:It's already completely unbalanced

[gfody]

5 tabs tripping is rougly equivelent to 30 beers drinking .. in their relative scales of fucked upness.

at least after 30 beers you would be too dead to drive