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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."
FP - I guess everyone else is deleting their Shared Folders :)
From the country that gave us the mafia.
Maybe we should include footers in the line of "I allow any recipient of this email to forward it without my written conscent".
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The Italian parliament yesterday voted in favour of imposing jail sentences of up to three years on anyone caught uploading or downloading unauthorised copyright material to and from the Net.
People don't download pirated music, computers download pirated music. Everybody calm down, unless you're routing packets by hand, you're safe.
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If they promise to confiscate my windows box and all my MS CD's
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
If the jail time and the fine won't deter the fileswappers, certainly the public humiliation in two national newspapers will!
...with a Prime Minister who makes his money from media companies. Those corrupt Italians! Imagine something like that happened in the US. If the President or Vice President stood to make money from invading Iraq, say, there'd be a hue and cry about it and they'd have no chance of getting away with it.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
I am italian and I declare that the content of this post is copyright is not redistributable. Cmdrtaco, I'm waiting for you at the airport along with the police :)
...needs someone to help them break this law, I am more than willing to assist.
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little did they realize that when they logged into that Italian web site there was a copyright image on the page without the the permission of the copyright holder. time to build a LOT more jails eh Italy?
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In Italy, criminal offence definitions and stated penalties cannot be directly compared to their US counterparts. To understand how this law is going to be enforced, use the conversion coefficients below by taking the US figure and multiply it by the coefficient:
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Number of people who'll be deterred from using P2P as a result of this law:
I'm going to change my name to a copyrighted haiku. Then the two Italian newspapers won't be able to publish my name online without facing criminal charges themselves. ;)
As punishment, or was that an advertisement?
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I think I hear the RIAA shedding a tear of joy. It's just so beautiful.
The Mafia was formed to protect ordinary people from laws like this coming from Rome. Just as soon as you get the gangsters under some form of control, the politicians do something totally stupid to revive it.
Did the Mafia help get this law passed in order to revive their ancient public image as the last bulwark against total Roman oppression?
Get ready for "The Godfather IV - Vote from the Rooftops"
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Italy Approves Jail for P2P Users
At first glance I wondered if this headline meant that Italy approved a special, separate prison for P2P users. Which would be kinda cool in a way... the P2P jails would be the ones where prisoners are constantly trading single cigarettes and stolen pudding.