Piracy worse than child pornography

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

That would only be a misdemeanor.

:rofl:

:grr:

Law and Order!

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

:mad:

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: .

Just thinking about it could get you eternal damnation!

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).

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

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

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.

child porn is not copywrited.

:eyes:

Some days I nearly despair.

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.

Get open source software and listen to independent musicians.

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

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....

Howard Berman almost for sure.

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

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

... 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!