<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">----- Mensaje original ----<br>De: Rick Falkvinge (Piratpartiet) <rick@piratpartiet.se><br>Enviado: miércoles, 12 de marzo, 2008 13:13:32<br><font style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2">> <span class="475540712-12032008"><font color="#000080">There appears to be a six-year prison sentence for
copyright infringement for commercial gain, and a 1.5-year<br>> maximum prison
sentence for noncommercial copyright infringement (with fines for less serious
offences).<br><br>That's so disgusting ... prison for non lucrative infringment, it's a crazed move!<br><br>></font></span> <span class="475540712-12032008"><font color="#000080">But I can read Danish only to the point that I get the
general idea about what is being talked about, and this is legal<br>> text, and one
where the real consequences have been deliberately obscured. Our Danish friends
are most welcome to<br>> help out. I have attached the fresh reports to this
mail.</font></span><br>><br>> <span class="475540712-12032008"><font color="#000080">(I imagine it would be something like you reading legal
Portuguese.)<br><br>Sure, let's wait for Danish pirates to give a hand on this :)</font></span></font><span class="475540712-12032008"><font color="#000080" face="Georgia" size="2"><font style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><br><br>> In any case, criminalizing patent infringements is
seriously bad enough. It would remove the entire principle of<br>> intent-to-commit
from due criminal process; you could be guilty of a crime giving six years in
prison without knowing or<br>> intending to do something illegal, and only after a
lengthy civil proceeding which is known to be more of a lottery.<br><br>That's not the only compromised law principle, the intent-to-commit; also, as Millner and myself said before, the proportionality principle, also the minimun intervention principle -one of the ruling principles of Spanish criminal law: if a pattern for law application turns everyone into criminals, then that's a wrong pattern-, and others.
Regards</font><br></font></span><br><br>
Carlos
Ayala<br>
( Aiarakoa )<br><br>
Partido Pirata National Board's Chairman<br></div></div><br>
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