War on...
So what is America's biggest advisary? Is it drugs we should have a war on? War on Terrorism maybe? Of course not. What we really need is a war on copyright infringement (NOTE: That isn't actually piracy despite how much they like the term). Of course we don't really care about the big offenders, the people manufacturering and selling DVDs without the right holders permission for example. What we really need to do is really punish those teenagers sharing files (and incidentally causing EMI to post a record profit...), and what better way than a new, even more overbearing law. Choice quote from the article:
Even attempting to commit that level of infringment would potentially carry a ten-year sentence. That’s the same maximum sentenced faced by bribe-taking Congressman Duke Cunningham, whose corruption probably cost taxpayers millions of dollars. It’s also more than the average Federal sentence for manslaughter (33 months), sexual abuse (73 months), arson (87 months), fraud (14 months), embezzlement (7 months), bribery (10 months), or racketeering/extortion (72 months).
Notice, the people who have bribed the corrupt politicians to propose this legislation would face 1/12th the sentence that some 17 year old using bit torrent would. You know, I would like to propose alternitive legislation that would make it legal for the mob of angry consumers to behead the politicians who obviously have only corporate interests at heart, and the lobbyists buying the politicians. We need to return to some good old french revolution style values where the greedy ruling class was taught a very forceful lesson.
~El Chupageek
Even attempting to commit that level of infringment would potentially carry a ten-year sentence. That’s the same maximum sentenced faced by bribe-taking Congressman Duke Cunningham, whose corruption probably cost taxpayers millions of dollars. It’s also more than the average Federal sentence for manslaughter (33 months), sexual abuse (73 months), arson (87 months), fraud (14 months), embezzlement (7 months), bribery (10 months), or racketeering/extortion (72 months).
Notice, the people who have bribed the corrupt politicians to propose this legislation would face 1/12th the sentence that some 17 year old using bit torrent would. You know, I would like to propose alternitive legislation that would make it legal for the mob of angry consumers to behead the politicians who obviously have only corporate interests at heart, and the lobbyists buying the politicians. We need to return to some good old french revolution style values where the greedy ruling class was taught a very forceful lesson.
~El Chupageek