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Legal Scholars Warn Against 10 Year Prison For Online Pirates
An anonymous reader writes: The UK Government wants to increase the maximum prison sentence for online copyright infringement from two years to ten. A number legal experts and activists are pushing back against the plan. One such group, The British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association (BILETA) has concluded that changes to the current law are not needed. "legitimate means to tackle large-scale commercial scale online copyright infringement are already available and currently being used, and the suggested sentence of 10 years seems disproportionate," the group writes.
The media industry are greedy and make consumption of media a chore.
There is a reason people turn to piracy, it is instant, it is able to be consumed anywhere, easy to transfer to handheld stuff and so on.
The media industries of the world, oh no, they hate that idea, they want to rip you off for everything, they want lock down, they want regions and restriction.
Adapt or die. The world is global, you will NOT stop piracy through jail terms.
In fact, all you will do is push people further in to the dark areas of the internet and be even harder to track, eventually going back to the old days of sneakernet, aka, some dude selling CDs or transferring HDDs. Instead, it will be high density flash drives or SSDs.
Gee, great one, you dicks. Saving the industry!
Region restrictions are the worst though.
They imply only a certain region can enjoy said content, which is patently untrue if anyone has watched Gaki No Tsukai.
Please search for another factor, crime rate in North America fell faster in Quebec than anywhere else and they have the laxisest penalty for crimes, however they used to be a leader in rehabilitation....
The cause was pointed out, it is unleaded fuel. www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/01/03/how-lead-caused-americas-violent-crime-epidemic/
Um sorry, crime rates have gone down in the US. Nobody has pinpointed exactly why.
Lead in fuel was a significant part of the story.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...
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Manslaughter... copyright infringement... they should both get about the same sentences, right? Nothing weird about that at all, is there? ~
Well these are conservatives we are talking about here and they do love draconian justice. Plus, we all know what massive success the Americans have had in their war on drugs with their longstanding policy of sentencing people to multi decade mandatory minimum sentences whenever they are caught with a few too many grams of pot.