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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.
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.