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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's prime minister is a high up executive of one of their major media conglomerates. Its a major conflict of interest. I believe the company has dealings with both music and owns the newspapers as well as some national television stations.
My aren't you quick on the uptake.
All of the Italian media is under direct government control, mostly because it is controlled by prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who owns all the media. Criticism of the government, and criticism of Berlusconi in particular, by the media, is not tolerated.
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This is the kind of lunatic laws you get when the recording industry lobbies government (hey, they got the cash!). Even in dear old Canada, where the courts protect our privacy through ISPs and uphold our right to freely copy media we own, the recording industry is lobbying government to change Canadian copyright law. If our government ratifies WIPO, as the industry is pushing them to do, we'll lose many of the media rights we enjoy (this will bring the DMCA into Canada). Please, visit our Digital Copyright Canada site, sign the Petition for Users' rights, and make digital freedom an election issue!
It all depends on whom it's being enforced *against*... a local community by me forced through a draconian curfew about ten years ago... basically no one under 18 was allowed to be out of their homes after 10:30 PM... the police hated it and fought against it... it got passed and the first person arrested for it was the mayor's daughter... coming home from work...
The curfew lasted six months after that I think...
So if you are going to go through harsh enforcement the key is to go after the government members families... I'm sure at least some of them have teenage kids downloading music, TV shows, and movies...
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In a society in which it is a mortal offense to be different from your neighbors your only escape is never to let them find out. -- Maureen Johnson in To Sail Beyond the Sunset
president of italy
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Prime minister please.
He's accused of corruption and has called a german politician a nazi or something like that. But he's more fasist I think then anyone in europe
Not just that; he's quite the media mogul:
1974: Telemilano
1980: Canale 5
1983: Italia 1
1984: Rete 4
1985: (movie theater chain), Milan AC soccer club
1990: publishing conglomerate Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A
Source: http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/B/htmlB/berlusc
Tyrannical media control law? Just do the math.
This is false. The choice to allow a free felon to vote is made on a state by state basis.
t orevote.h tm
This is from the DOJ website: "The right to vote is an important civil right in a democracy as well as a civil responsibility, and yet many persons who have been convicted of a crime do not know whether they are eligible to vote. For both federal and state elections, the right to vote is controlled by the law of the state in which you live. Some states restrict the right to vote for persons who have been convicted of a crime."
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/restorevote/res
Sorry to be OT but I wanted to correct this.
So obviously the papers would be exempt.
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