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Germany Accepts Strict Piracy Law
A beautiful mind writes "The TimesOnline is reporting that Germany has accepted a new piracy law, currently the toughest in Europe, which comes into effect on January 1, 2007. From the article: 'Germans risk two years in prison if they illegally download films and music for private use under a new law agreed yesterday. Anybody who downloads films for commercial use could be jailed for up to five years.' Many politicians defended the new law, amongst them Günther Krings, the Christian Democrat legal affairs spokesman, who claimed: 'There should be no legal distinction between stealing chewing gum from a shop and performing an illegal download.'"
In Chermany, films pirate YOU!
Where are we going to put 45 million expatriot germans?
I just wish they'd give someone 2 years in prison for those stupid VW commercials.
Once all the Germans were war-like, and mean
But that couldn't happen again;
We taught them a lesson in 1918
And they've hardly bothered us since then.
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
Besides, 'socially acceptable' is coward language to try and demure the difference between right/progress and wrong/destructiveness.
Get a job, hippie.
He meant gum crater, a crater on the moon. The German laws for theft of celestial objects are pretty harsh.
Compare this to France trying to legalize P2P via an 8E/mo tax and it looks like it's about time to get out of Europe.
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
except for russia
In Germany, you beat piracy,
In Soviet Russia, a pirate beats you!!
sorry.
and, yeah I know the russian dude won the fight.
i'll go now.
You are misrepresenting the situation. They are not saying women are worth twice as much as DVDs, they are saying women are worth 2.5x as much as DVDs. We would not want that to be misunderstood.
Obviously you have never seen the bill of the Enterprise for licensing fees for steak blueprints.
I heard you go to a prison planet if you replicate using a blueprint for which you did not pay the license fees.
I'm still trying to figure out what people mean by 'social skills' here.
Copyright theft? Either I have been smoking some heavy shit lately, or I magically obtained the legal copyright to the works illicitly when I dwnloaded them. 0_o
If you believe in privacy, and believe you have "nothing to hide" at the same time, you're a goddammed idiot
Wouldn't it be simpler to just ask people to respect the intellectual property of others and to not download things they have not purchased? Or would that be too much to ask?
Mac OS X and Windows XP working side by side to fight back the night.
Ask your public librarian. She's that shady little wench down on the street corner handing out free copies of copyrighted works. Books, movies, music... she's ur hook up!