[SUBMAN1]

Are these people serious and would rather give a harsher sentence to someone copying the neighbors DVD than to a Child Porn Ring? Is this a major case of government being way out of touch with its people? Wow!

Europeans should be wary of this too since stuff like this tends to trickle down to them too.

-S

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31256

Piracy worse than child pornography

Society's new perspectives


By Nick Farrell: Wednesday 26 April 2006, 06:44

THE NEW look Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) seems to be giving the world an unusual moral code.
Details of the upgraded act, which has the blessing of the music and film industry and the Bush administration, are now coming to light. It appears that the DMCA will have a maximum sentence of ten years inside for the crime of software and music piracy. It will also give the FBI the powers to wiretap suspected pirates.

Although sentencing varies in the US, the new law does send a very strange message as to what the government considers 'bad' in the 21st century.

For example assaulting a police officer will get you five years, downloading child porn will get you seven years, assaulting without a weapon will get you ten years and aggravated assault six years.

So in other words if you copy a Disney CD and sell it you will be in the same league as a paedophile who is distributing pictures of sexual attacks on children.

If you copy Craig David's CD you get ten years, but if you punch him in the face and pummel him into a seven day coma you will only get six. You are more likely to get the respect of the prison population with your six year sentence as well.

[The Noob]

Those Governement People are Nuts!

They Have the Arsch Offen!

If i Read such Stupid Bullsh!t i Could Freak Out! :hulk:

[Neal Stevens]

Nick Farrell must have an agenda.

[TteFAboB]

So everybody agrees the only problem is the sentence being too harsh, out of proportion.

I concur, and propose a solution to fix the distortion: raise the rest of the sentences!

If copying a Disney CD for piracy will get someone 10 years, then assaulting a police officer should give 17 years, downloading child porn should give 21 years and aggravated assault 35 years.

[SUBMAN1]

[Neal Stevens]

How would you suggest it be written from a "consumer standpoint"? For example....?

Do you disagree the creator of the material has final say over distribution? I'm curious what you mean by this, Subman.

Which of these parts would you propose squashing?

[Ducimus]

I don't care what agenda's behind that horseshit of an article, their isnt much that is as digusting , or more disgusting then child porn, with the possible exception of murder.


by comparision, piracy is WAAAYYY down on the totem pole of the serious offenses.

Without going iinto too many details, i work with a large database on the internet. And as part of my job, i see ALOT of whats on the internet, so i have seen ALOT of child porn. Not by choice, but its part of my job. When these sites are discovered we pass them along to the proper authorites.

So i have seen just how bad this crap can be. Some of those images stick in your mind for days. Anyone who says piracy is worse then child pron should be forced to sit down and look through it all. Partcuarly that really nasty poo poo that comes out of russia or the ukraine.

[Neal Stevens]

[Perilscope]

[Abraham]

I have a slightly different comment to make than others up till now did. More about the article than about the maximum punishment.

[August]

[scandium]

I agree with the author of the article that the people drafting this legislation are out to lunch. Laws don't exist in a vacuum and the severity of a maximum sentence should be proportionate to both the crime and to maximum sentences for other crimes. Bad laws or those with out of proportion sentences are often simply not enforced.

In Canada we are still in a bit of a grey area as far as downloading music is concerned. Our Canadian version of RIAA has unsuccessfully sought in court to obtain the IP addresses from our biggest ISPs of those it alleged were illicitly downloading copyrighted material. The court refused, however, on the grounds that it was an unwarranted invasion of privacy and that Canadians already pay a levy on blank CD/DVDs that is distributed among the artists. The record industry had effectively sought to double dip by having us pay this levy, on the grounds that people buying blank CD/DVDs are using them to record downloaded music, and then attempting to sue them to regain "lost profits" for downloading music.

[micky1up]

these guys need to get real if copying movies and music is destroying the buisness then how come the british industry posted record profits earlier this year what a load of tosh for once im with the french on this one they are bringing a more liberal approach on file sharing and copying. its typical of the justice system most countries run if u harm people light sentences are given ,rob a bank of cash harming no-one and u get the book thrown at you

[XabbaRus]

[Wim Libaers]

There's something people are missing in that rather sloppy article, and it is mentioned in the source here:
http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/001452new_bill_toughens_copyright_penalties_and_police_powers.php

"Even worse, the bill would expand section 1201 of the DMCA that bars trafficking in or distributing software capable of bypassing DRM systems to make it a crime to “make, import, export, obtain control of, or possess” such software."

So, you don't really have to pirate anything to be a criminal under the proposed new law. It is sufficient to buy SH3, and then use an unofficial patch that makes it run without Starforce because you're worried that it might damage your PC. Because you've bypassed a DRM system. Removing the rootkit installed on your PC by a Sony music CD? Go to jail.