• LoganXan@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    “The most recent reported conviction saw a 37-year-old man receive a 60-day suspended prison sentence in September for pirating more than a thousand works through local BitTorrent trackers.” Woaaah now, calm down there, killas. A hand can only be slapped so hard. Why even bother convicting at this point if one can pirate thousands of things and get a sentence like this? Surely they must realize how little of a deal it really is?

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      11 months ago

      It is an action to emphasize the piracy is illegal and they will hunt you down for it using state resources, not matter the sentence.

      This guy will be on their shitlist at least for a decade now. The next sentence would be times worse. But the best effect of this is that you sentence one guy, no matter how light the sentence is, then 1000 teens are afraid of ever thinking of piracy. Surely some of them will say “lol look at the joke of a sentence, so keep on pirating” but a lot won’t.

      What’s better yet, a lot of those afraid teenagers will internalize piracy as both illegal and immoral.