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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.

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  1. Pirate Party by BrookHarty · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why do I think this is mostly aimed at stopping the Pirate party. Life in prison in Sweden is 10 year, And proposed for piracy is 6? That sounds pretty political.

    Also, It's not like Sweden would use politics, for let's say, to go after a person so they could try to extradite him to the US for leaking documents. /s

  2. Meanwhile Afghan men can murder for less than 2 yr by aliquis · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Mean-while Afghan men can murder people in Sweden and get a punishment of less than 2 years of prison.

    That's because among the adults of Afghans hardly anyone got the right of asylum so they lie and claim they are children. And while applying for asylum it's kinda ok to lie and the Migration office may believe them.

    But then when they actually do kill someone else then it become up to the court to show that they are adults and good luck with that since you don't even know who the fuck they are in the first place.

    And since Sweden don't have the same sentences for actual youth (and even less for people below 15 years old) as for adults they get a very low punishment.

    https://petterssonsblogg.se/20...
    "16" years now, supposedly "15" then.

    So less than two years for knife murder.
    Up to six years for breaking copyright.

    Make sense. The idiots in charge and those who want to keep all the afghans for instance claim we must have rule of law as far as immigration and peopleÂs behavior in response to criminality goes. But it's of course only valid when it benefit the invaders and destroy the life of Swedes. But the system definitely isn't fair or just and we don't have equality against the law in Sweden because the immigrants can do whatever the fuck they want since they can just claim to not be responsibility because they are children whereas actual Swedes can't even if they behaved like the filth coming here which by itself would be very unlikely. So far.

  3. Re:What a s*hole country by aliquis · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Here to:
    https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

    Afghan man got 1 year and 10 months for knife murder.

    Because he "was 15" when he killed.

    The idiots who believed he was 15 I guess we should have a capital punishment for to save our people from their stupid genes and ideas.

  4. Seems harsh considering ... by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The punishment for actual piracy, studying the prosecution of Somali pirates:

    ... the sentences imposed on pirates for similar crimes range from four years to life in prison. The average sentence globally is 16 years ...

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  5. Re:And how much.... by Cinnamon+Beige · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hi! I'm happy to see that you're finally (re?)joining the internet, AC! It's been a busy few decades, and a lot has changed since you left!

    One of the things that has changed is the creation of automated copyright claims, which have a known tendency to result in false (and occasionally outright absurd) claims, and IP trolling has risen!

    We've had, since you left, people making copyright claims on original material, degrading what could possibly be counted as fair use, and recorded cases of people making copyright claims against themselves. Proving that you are in fact making fair use, or otherwise not infringing on somebody else's IP, is now a rather expensive prospect. The longstanding laws that actually do cover misrepresenting yourself as the owner of a piece of IP to the court, or demanding payment in return for not being sued (which can bankrupt you to win in some countries) are not enforced. Oh, yeah, and some countries, all you really need to do is be able to afford to keep it going the longest, because the other guy just needs to stop being able to afford to defend himself.

    I am not inclined to bet that a law like this would be drafted to improve the situation, or even keep it from getting worse by having the basic sense to clearly define 'gross infringement.' (I would suggest having part of the requirement be 'make $ off of.') Toss in some penalties for anybody misrepresenting themselves as the owner of IP, and for creating honeypots--yes, there's one case of somebody who was the representative of a piece of IP using a pseudonym to stick it on bittorrent and then go after people who got copies of the IP that way. (Last I checked, the courts had decided that it don't matter if the account name is PirateKing, if you put your stuff or your client's stuff up yourself, the copies gotten that way are in fact legal copies.)

  6. Re:And how much.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Exaxctly. And rapists in Sweden get 2-4 years. Again politicians are bribed by the movie/music industry.

  7. Re:Better idea by rtb61 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Did you not read the article and I quote "Today there is organized online piracy that has major consequences for the whole community", now for that crime, I mean major consequences for the whole community, perhaps the pirates are raiding towns and mass raping women as well, I mean to say they are claiming it has major consequences for the whole community. What other crimes have major consequences for the whole community, seriously 'MAJOR CONSEQUENCES FOR THE WHOLE COMMUNITY' you just have to capitalise that claim, I mean that is the equal of a war, so the pirates have declared war on the entire community, pirates raping and pillaging every where, oh my GOD the consequences.

    Any dick minister who makes that claim, has to be so corrupted by the pigopolists, from being serviced by young starlets, to luxury holidays to big ole fat off share taxen bank accounts, should not be in the job. That is a pretty wild claim that the minister should be forced by the courts to substantiate else face slander charges. I mean the idiot does know the difference between pirates the kind that copy content using their equipment and their media and their time, they are stealing nothing compared to the pirates that use to raid ships and villages, like the 'erm' Vikings did. You heard of them pirates haven't you, the Viking pirates that used to rape, pillage and plunder all over the place, apparently according to the minister they are back because they are the only people who could cause 'MAJOR CONSEQUENCES FOR THE WHOLE COMMUNITY'.

    Fucking hell the Viking raiders are back, watch out England. PS the only thing I see in Sweden that has 'MAJOR CONSEQUENCES FOR THE WHOLE COMMUNITY' is the foolish unregulated mass migration of the worst from countries with very primitive cultures but hey, if the Viking Pirate Raiders are back, probably they are causing problems too? (don't repeat this in Sweden, you would probably be arrested).

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