Copyright offenses officially as bad as child abuse
First Demonoid (a very well know tormenting site) suffers a week of unusability due to a well organised hacking attack, and then the site gets raided by the government and shut down. Not that I'm suggesting the officals had anything to do with anything as illegal as hacking a site, oh no. I'm sure there's no connection at all, just like there's no connection between sex and pregnancy.
Oh, and now Pirate Bay, the most well known torrenting site, is down because of hackers. Another co-incidence, no doubt.
In other news, some bloke in England gets four years in prison for hosting a site that linked to TV shows for download. Four years for a copyright offense.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19253359
Also getting four years in prison, was a man who raped an eight year old boy four times.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-19199319
And as anyone who knows the British legal system will testify, it's a surprise the child rapist got even that long. The world really is insane.
Oh, and now Pirate Bay, the most well known torrenting site, is down because of hackers. Another co-incidence, no doubt.
In other news, some bloke in England gets four years in prison for hosting a site that linked to TV shows for download. Four years for a copyright offense.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19253359
Also getting four years in prison, was a man who raped an eight year old boy four times.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-19199319
And as anyone who knows the British legal system will testify, it's a surprise the child rapist got even that long. The world really is insane.
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Well don't forget that rape was originally a property offence. I think the four year offence for profiting to that scale from copyright infringement is probably fair. I think four years for eight separate offences against the same victim is clearly insufficient. Frankly four years for eight separate assaults on adult would be lenient.
The law always has been biased toward property and money.
Personaly, I'd like to see a serious overhaul of sentencing in the criminal justice system.
You are maybe thinking of Richard O'Dwyer who was a kid when he started tvshack.
In both cases what pi**ed the major companies off was that they earned advertising revenue off what they must have known what was an illegal activity.
What's the difference between these cases and someone buying a DVD, ripping it, and selling 100 copies on a car boot sale? Nothing.
is it? dunno, i cant get on to it since its been "hidden" by uk isps.
however, the clone site i use insteeads perfectly fine :P
the point is the difference between that and rape
I would have given that SOB rapist life without parole. As for the copyright case, a hefty fine.
lol i only just saw that, a tormenting site :P
And if the victim goes on to be an offender, what sentence would be appropriate for them?
Life without parole is a living death sentence based on the assumption that no-one can ever reform. It offers a marginal chance to the wrongly convicted (outside of the US where being innocent isn't actually considered grounds for appeal). But for those who did the crime there are two rational choices: kill yourself or kill as many guards and inmates as you can until they do it for you.
I agree though, 4 years for 4 separate offences does seem lenient when the guidelines recommend 10-15 years. But there might have been mitigating circumstances or they took into consideration the age of the bloke when he did it (16) (and presumably has never done it again?)
Nay problem :)
The problem with fixed sentencing is it is easy to get it wrong, for example a 16 year old boy has sex with his girlfreind of 15, technicaly it's rape - the lad will probably serve time and get on the sex offenders list for a long time which is totally unjust. Whereas a 40 year old man rapes a 15 year old girl would probably be treated the same, which is unjust imho.
This is why judges must be able to use their judgement and common sense when aplplying sentences.