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First Guilty Verdict In Criminal Copyright Case
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A Brooklyn man has been found guilty of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement by a federal jury in Virginia. He now faces up to five years in prison, a quarter-million-dollar fine, and three years of parole, not to mention the 'full restitution' he has to make to the RIAA. The charges against him stem from his role as 'Dextro,' the administrator of one of the Apocalypse Production Crew's file servers — APC being one of the release groups that specialize in pre-release music. While he's the 15th member of APC to be charged under the US DOJ's Operation Fastlink, he's the first to be convicted. He will be sentenced on August 8th. For those wondering when infringement became a criminal matter, you can thank the NET Act, which was signed into law in 1997 by Bill Clinton."
In American political reasoning it is worse.
1. It hurts big industries who grow the economy.*
2. The money made obviously goes towards other ill-purposes, even possibly terrorism making it a terrorist act.**
3. It is a gateway crime which with certainly lead to many more homicides not only by the original perpetrator(s) but also anyone they touched.***
With number one it is worse than homicide because it hurts big business and without that support American citizens would die. Everyone knows food comes from Walmart!
It is also worse with number two because we all know terrorists kill many people and even the slightest of problems here in the states make them climax in evil pleasure and cause a hundred kittens to die. Don't you like kittens?!
Obviously it is also worse with reason three as the gateway effect of small crimes is well known, and those crimes also support terrorism leading into number two. We really should shoot these awful people on sight; it is a burden of civilization that we have to give them a fair trail before they are found guilty!
*Big businesses and industries are those 1% who control almost half of the US's wealth. These fine people and interests also help pay for our politicians and insure that we get the best laws and government their money can buy.
**It is well known that the money goes there, only a terrorist would say or consider otherwise.
***Also well known and proven.
5 years is too much? You make me sick.
Christina Agurilla was going to put a gold-plated shark-tank bar next to her swimming pool this month, but now thanks to people like this scum bag who pirate music, she's going to have to wait two months before she has enough money to afford the addition. And Jay-Z? He was going to buy three new H2's, but thanks you criminals like yourself, he can't afford to build another garage right now, and he's going to have to sell his old H2's just to have a place to park his new cars.
Five years... It's scumbags like you who've sent this country down hill, sir, and I thumb my teeth at you.
He took an intangible right. You cannot dismiss that so easily. Many property rights (including real property rights) are intangible. Theft is theft.