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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.

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  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?

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  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. 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

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