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Sweden Considers Six Years in Jail For Online Pirates (torrentfreak.com)
Sweden's Minister for Justice has received recommendations as to how the country should punish online pirates. From a report: Helene Fritzon received a proposal which would create crimes of gross infringement under both copyright and trademark law, leading to sentences of up to six years in prison. The changes would also ensure that non-physical property, such as domain names, can be seized.
Life-time in prison in Sweden is a prison sentence until further notice.
After 10 years in prison for a life-sentence you can ask to have them set a time for your punishment. _IF_ they decide on a time sentence instead if can become no shorter than 18 years. It's common practise in Sweden to let people get out conditionally after 2/3 of the time. On average people get a "24" year sentence in jail which mean that given the 2/3 sentence before conditionally release that they will stay in prison on average for 16 years.
Life in Sweden isn't 10 years. You can't just sit 10 years on a life-time prison sentence in Sweden. You can get it replaced with a time sentence after 10 years of time.
As for the pirate party it's very much dead and it sadly used to be all about piracy and hardly anything about freedom of speech and transparency and democracy which would be much more important and interesting. Then some homosexual (?) woman got into the leadership of the party and it become some ... at-least in part some sort of refugee possibly pride party. I guess one can't say the left stole the party because it always seemed to be about theft of intellectual party rather than something more interesting. I guess actual freedom of speech and freedom and democracy in general would be more of a right-wing thing whereas the left definition of "democracy" is rather socialist dictatorship / theocratical/ideological rule without the right and chance to change it.
I don't think Swedish politicians did it to get Assange. I however think they were perfectly fine keeping Assange stuck in his position and try to force him to come to Sweden no matter what the risk was for him because that's what the law said and if Sweden is good at anything it's usually to follow the terms ..
It isn't rape if the victim doesn't say no, uncrosses their legs, or if there are more than 6 males present. Based on judge rulings and previous non convictions.
That teenager who did over 10 African men? Asking for it, obviously.
The girl who had her face smashed in after she went to the police? How dare she deny a black male his right
The thing is that there are different kinds of bad situations.
People who are actually running away from war and fear of death? Sure, give them a helping hand.
People who walk all the way up through Europe to get to the country with the best financial benefits available? Send them back where they came from. You do NOT call yourself a refugee after crossing through a handful of peaceful European countries just to get to where you wanted to go.
Sweden, unfortunately, is paralyzed with political correctness. Police officers that finally speak up about crime rates inflating out of control in muslim-heavy parts of the country are fired for subverting the public's faith in the authorities.
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It doesn't happen.
Happened to Mitch Martinez
IIRC it also happened to Bjorn Lynne.
Both of those where discovered because the victim was the author that had the rights to the work.
Most of the false claims are given to people who uses work that are in the public domain or under a permissive license.
Not being the author they might believe that they were mistaken and stops using the work.
Those cases doesn't raise headlines so you won't hear about them.
Basically the proposition raises the maximum punishment and divides it into 2 categories
1. If you download something at home for "private use", the punishment will be fines and possibly UP TO MAXIMUM 2 years of prison.
2. If you start a business where you make money of pirating content, you may go to prison 6 month UP TO MAXIMUM 6 years.
Original proposition + google translate. https://translate.google.com/t...
Sweden agreed to take people from other EU countries, as part of an EU plan to lessen the burden on those countries that are geographically close to the problem by distributing the refugees.
If the EU didn't try to do this then the frontier countries would just hand those people visas and tell them to leave for other EU countries anyway, and it would be chaotic and create huge problems. It's not been perfect but it's been far better than it would have been if they had done nothing.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Heh, “refugee pride party”. Same happened to the Pirate Party in the Netherlands, which started out pretty decent. They weren’t so much about piracy but they did advocate a thorough revision of copyright law to return it to its original purpose, as well as being strong proponents of free speech and sensible digital rights. They got taken over by a new lefty chairperson as well. They are co-organisers of a march against racism (more like a hate campaign against the right) together with questionable groups like Antifa, which made even the other left wing parties - usually all too eager to signal their virtue - distance themselves from this demonstration. It’s sad what this movement has come to.
How’s the pirates in Germany doing these days? Last time I looked they still seemed like a sensible bunch.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
A sexual emergency is the defence for raping children.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Note that despite losing the retrial (see http://www.independent.co.uk/n... ) it's still relevant because his conviction was overturned on the grounds his sexual emergency outweighed the right of a 10 year old to not be fucked by an adult.