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Legal Scholars Warn Against 10 Year Prison For Online Pirates

Posted by samzenpus on from the go-directly-to-jail dept.

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.

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  1. Re: America tried long prison sentences by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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....

  2. Re: America tried long prison sentences by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    The cause was pointed out, it is unleaded fuel. www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/01/03/how-lead-caused-americas-violent-crime-epidemic/

  3. Re:America tried long prison sentences by labnet · · Score: 3, Informative

    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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