Name: VIPPER 2006-05-01 19:42
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.