Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Sweden Considers Six Years in Jail For Online Pirates (torrentfreak.com)

Posted by msmash on from the consequences dept.

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.

9 of 194 comments (clear)

  1. And how much.... by Sebby · · Score: 5, Insightful

    .... for those that falsely claim copyright infringement on stuff that they don’t own copyright on to begin with?

    --

    AC comments get piped to /dev/null
    1. Re: And how much.... by mSparks43 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Or TLDR.
      Sweden is full of corrupt politicians lining their own pockets with media company money too.

  2. Better idea by alvinrod · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why not just make them do community service instead? I don't think it's really in the interest of the taxpayers to spend tens of thousands of dollars (or Swedish Krona I suppose) to lock up non-violent individuals who are committing what would be best regarded as civil offenses.

    1. Re:Better idea by arglebargle_xiv · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I think they should make the punishment proportional to that for existing crimes. For example leaking private data for your entire population, including sensitive law-enforcement and military data, was penalised by the offender being docked six months pay. So on that scale copyright infringement should attract a fine of 10 Ãre. That's fair.

  3. Sweden's a degenerate and insane society by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    No wonder that country's turned into a gigantic sh*thole in few decades. They have so many terrorism incidents there that their newspapers have to hide it in back pages. This is what happens when leftists run your country.

    RIP Sweden.

  4. It makes a lot of sense... by LoyalOpposition · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    You can get a lot of political contributions from copyright holders; hardly any from murderers.

    ~Loyal

    --
    I aim to misbehave.
  5. Re:Government is the biggest pirate racket by BeauHD+(Sr.+Editor) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Unfortunately, it is, and Trump isn't making things better.

    If only Russia hadn't installed him, we would have Hillary, and things would be A-OK.

  6. Re:Pirate Party by dave420 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of couse it's impossible for someone to earnestly want to improve something - they must be "virtue signalling". Also, "antifa" is a movement and not a group. And a protest against racism is only against those in the right who are racist. If you feel they were attacking you, you might just be a racist.

  7. Re:Meanwhile Afghan men can murder for less than 2 by dave420 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's also paralysed by people not understanding the rules and getting angry about things they don't understand. You seem to be such a person.