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Italy Approves Jail for P2P Users
funkdid writes "Italy has made transferring content via the Internet without the permission of the copyright holder a criminal offence.Those found guilty of the unauthorised distribution of copyright material now face a fine of between 154 and 1032 ($185-1240), a jail sentence of between six months and three years, the confiscation of their hardware and software, and the revelation of their misdeeds in Italy's two national newspapers, La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera."
Italy Approves Jail for P2P Users
Ahhh Slashdot. Nothing like coming into a psuedo newsite full of ranting loons going off against the bias of Fox News or anything else then seeing half-truth, inflammatory headlines like that just to grab people's attention.
What you MEANT to say, of course, is:
Italy Approves Jail for P2P Users Who Transfer Copywritten Materials Without Permission to Do So
Which is, of course, already illegal in most places. Moral arguments about the punishment not fitting the crime etc. aside, it would be nice if Slashdot would at least pretend to be a news site every now and then instead of just trying to sell us ads by playing off of reactionary attitudes on this site.
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