[Infowarrior] - Piracy penalties WORSE than child porn under DMCA 2.0

[Richard Forno]

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.