[attrition] Piracy penalties WORSE than child porn under DMCA 2.0

[security curmudgeon]

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Piracy worse than child pornography

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

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.