[pp.int.general] Denmark announces new penalties for file sharing

[Andy Milner]

What sort of fucked up world (excuse my language but it sums up
exactly!) do we live in where infringing someones copyright attracts a
higher sentence than a womans right to live without being seriously
sexually assaulted?

Methinks someone has got their priorities wrong. But I guess we should
never be surprised by their actions, it's the same here in the UK.
Sentences that involve theft are invariably HIGHER than those that
involve offences against the person...

*sigh*

A

On 12/03/2008, Rick Falkvinge (Piratpartiet) <rick at piratpartiet.se> wrote:
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> http://www.oem.dk/sw21117.asp
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> In short: the penalty for copyright infringement is raised to 1-6 years in
> prison. That means a minimum prison term of one year for copyright
> infringement.
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> This is the same penalty as armed robbery, and considerably higher than
> assault or rape. (I have compared to the Swedish penalties, so it's not
> entirely red-apples-to-red-apples, but they are always strikingly similar,
> so green-apples-to-red-apples.)
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