Piracy worse than child pornography

[cyberpj]

Piracy worse than child pornography
Society's new perspectives
By Nick Farrell: Wednesday 26 April 2006

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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.

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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.

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

[Demeter]

1. Excuse me?

Are we confusing the children of one's intellect with living, breathing, suffering human beings?

[wakeme2008]

2. IMHO this has never been about kiddie porn but

about $$$$$ in lost music company revenue...

[sharp_stick]

8. As long as the music industry is able

to convince people that their dropping profits are due to downloading and not bad management and production of crap they will have the ears of the politicians.

It's an easy political point to blame kids that download. I do wonder what the music industry would come up with as the next pathetic excuse if they were able to stop illegal downloading?

[Kellanved]

9. I don't even think poor quality is the reason

The overall sales of "content" have skyrocketed, mainly thanks to the DVD. The overall entertainment industry is having one record year after another.
As people have only so-much money to spend, it is no surprise that cinemas and music are not doing equally well.

[iconoclastNYC]

20. There is no evidence

That piracy causes a decrease in revenue.

It's a logically falacy to assume that everyone who downloads art "illegaly" would otherwise purchase such material.

[cyberpj]

25. I agree. That AND setting up the "need for control" of the Internet. nt.

[htuttle]

3. You might as well just shoplift the CD

That would only be a misdemeanor.

[superconnected]

14. rofl

:rofl:

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

4. Fucking asinine.

:grr:

[iconoclastNYC]

21. Yeah because tougher sentances always reduce crime.

Law and Order!

More privatized prisons...more money for the elite.

[ThomCat]

5. law almost always protects money more than people.

[Coventina]

6. This society has fucked up priorities. Death to the RIAA!!

:mad:

[Kellanved]

7. Oh it gets even better

If I read it correctly, just coying the Disney CD it gets you 10 yeas; even non-commercial copies come with the "10-years".

Even the attenmpt counts - hello :wtf: .

[NoPasaran]

15. Good thing RIAA can't classify it as a mortal sin

Just thinking about it could get you eternal damnation!

[cyberpj]

26. And whatever happened to the buyer's right to make a back-up copy? nt

[Kellanved]

27. That one hasn't been around for a few years now

You are not allowed to circumvent copy protection mechanisms; a pseudo-CD equipped with one may not be backed up (IIRC; it's that way over here and our laws are pretty much like the DCMA).

[Desperadoe]

10. Big victory for the RIAA......and associates............

Al & Tipper Gore and Joe Lieberman. The DLC scores another big goal for corporate Murika.

[Kellanved]

11. If you want a name: Lamar Smith

Seems a more plausible recipient for the blame, if you ask me.

[NoPasaran]

16. Lamar Smith can be beaten this November

If folks actually want to do something useful instead of just whining about the DLC they should check out his decidedly non-DLC opponent, John Courage.

[RaleighNCDUer]

12. Seems reasonable to me. After all

child porn is not copywrited.

:eyes:

Some days I nearly despair.

[hyphenate]

13. These sentencing limits are so out of line

Someone should really sit down and figure that shit out. Perhaps there is also a difference between serving a jail sentence and serving a prison sentence, because you can serve in difference type prisons, from minimum to maximum security.

[simonm]

17. Get open music and software

Get open source software and listen to independent musicians.

http://www.ubuntu.com/
http://www.grassrootsmusic.com/indies/

[madrchsod]

18. diane feinstein

one of the democrats who pushed this act thru congress. conyers was also on the file sharing hit list of congress critters who were going to hobble file sharing but he backed off the proposed legislation.

it`s not about music or movies to the government ,it`s about monitoring -all- file sharing....

[depakid]

19. And some Dems will go along- probably more than a few

Howard Berman almost for sure.

[yurbud]

22. crimes against corporations vs. crimes against people---

how hard is it to figure out Congress' priorities here?

[yurbud]

23. how big a political donation can a kid make when he's a sex slave?

You want a tough law, you got to pay these guys.

[cascadiance]

24. Don't tell Brian Bilbray this! He and the NRCC will change plans...

... and now put out new ads that say Francine Busby is a friend to pirates instead of a friend to child molestors. They have to continue to up the ante you know!

[cyberpj]

28. Here's a good petition to fight recording industry's lawsuits:

http://www.eff.org/share/petition/