Copy a CD get 10 yrs. Assault a cop get 5. What's wrong with this picture?

[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


Here's a good petition to fight recording industry's lawsuits:
http://www.eff.org/share/petition /

[liberalnurse]

1. Maybe it reflect s or dates when the

the law went into effect? The CD law is recent for sure as is downloading child porn. Assulting Officers goes all the way back to Matt Dillion days.

[bluerum]

2. Hey - the entertainment industry has $$$$$$ to throw at congress.

[Scout1071]

3. Start an illegal war and get nothing. nt

[htuttle]

4. Shoplift a CD, get a misdemeanor

But then take the stolen CD home and copy it, get 10 years?

:crazy:

[SlipperySlope]

5. I don't support special laws protecting the police.

I don't support special laws protecting the police. All should be equal in the eyes of the law. If the penalty for assaulting a police officer isn't severe enough, then increase the penalty for assault in general.

In general, I oppose all laws which give agents of the government any special privilege or protection that normal citizens don't get.

[AX10]

6. I agree 100 percent!

I oppose all laws which give agents of the government any special privilege or protection that normal citizens don't get.

[baldguy]

7. A child's life is worth more than a cop's life,

The copyright of "Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector" is worth more than a child's life.

[cyberpj]

8. The cop penalty is not the point. It's the music piracy sentence!! nt

sigh...........