File Sharing = Manslaughter

TrevelyanTrevelyan Join Date: 2003-03-23 Member: 14834Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">:-|</div> <a href='http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/21/p2p_is_murder/' target='_blank'>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/21/p2p_is_murder/</a>

Yup... our country sure has it's priorities screwed up.
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  • DuoGodOfDeathDuoGodOfDeath Join Date: 2002-08-01 Member: 1044Members
    I'm pretty sure thats probably the maximum sentence and the judge will probably be to PO'ed about such a boring case he'll just give you a simple community service. Then you just do it again <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • theclamtheclam Join Date: 2004-08-01 Member: 30290Members
    Don't worry, you're not alone. In my country, we don't just make copyright infringement penalties harsher than involuntary manslaughter, we make copyright infringement penalties harsher than rape.
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  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    Oh MAN I totally misread this topic.

    I thought the second I came in here I was going to get lambasted by people screaming at me saying that everytime I shared a file with another user a baby dies or something.

    Christ. That took a few years off'a my life.
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  • kill4thrillskill4thrills Join Date: 2004-06-24 Member: 29506Members, Constellation
    well although it's funny that pirating is getting harsher punishment than manslaughter, i think it's because there are SO MANY people out there guilty of illegal file sharing compared to a handful of people who are guilty of manslaughter. this also belongs in <span style='color:red'>*gasp* </span><span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>discussion forum</span> <span style='color:yellow'>*cough*</span>
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  • DuoGodOfDeathDuoGodOfDeath Join Date: 2002-08-01 Member: 1044Members
    But still though Kill4Thrill's, sharing files isn't accidently killing someone though. So if someone downloaded one song and is now sharing it they diserve 3 years in jail for it? Kinda stupied in my opinion.
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  • kill4thrillskill4thrills Join Date: 2004-06-24 Member: 29506Members, Constellation
    edited April 2005
    well it'd be pretty effective deterent if they actually started jailing people in large numbers, wouldn't you agree? i would stop sharing files immediately...

    but i wonder how long they would be able to keep it up until the jails run out of room. they aren't exactly high on vacancies right now
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  • ChronoChrono Local flyboy Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18989Members
    thats pathetic my friend got 8 months for vehicular manslaughter
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  • CabooseCaboose title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
    Ahh lobyists, who could live without them? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • neko1neko1 Join Date: 2004-02-28 Member: 26950Members
    Can't spell manslaughter without laughter.
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  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-neko?+Apr 22 2005, 12:00 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (neko? @ Apr 22 2005, 12:00 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Can't spell manslaughter without laughter. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    A very good point.
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  • RellixRellix Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13572Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    edited April 2005
    <!--QuoteBegin-kill4thrills+Apr 22 2005, 05:24 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (kill4thrills @ Apr 22 2005, 05:24 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> well it'd be pretty effective deterent if they actually started jailing people in large numbers, wouldn't you agree? i would stop sharing <b><i>music/movie</i></b> files immediately...

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    Fixed.

    It is stupid tho, recently is seems a lot of US legislation is to protect large companies, I mean you can accidentaly kill someone and get a less tough sentance than for downloading one song....
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  • Private_ColemanPrivate_Coleman PhD in Video Games Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7510Members
    Yeah, it's all pretty stupid.
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  • sheena_yanaisheena_yanai Join Date: 2002-12-23 Member: 11426Members
    edited April 2005
    <!--QuoteBegin-Private Coleman+Apr 22 2005, 04:35 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Private Coleman @ Apr 22 2005, 04:35 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Yeah, it's all pretty stupid. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    stupid?
    you call that stupid?

    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->A woman was arrested recently for strangling her ex-husband, after seeing him murder their 13-year-old daughter.
    After watching her ex choke and stab their daughter to death, the 49-year-old woman strangled the man with his tie as he tried to commit suicide by stabbing himself in the stomach.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    the proof that people can get arrested for way dumber reasons...
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  • Seph_KimaraSeph_Kimara Join Date: 2003-08-10 Member: 19359Members
    ...what...the...

    buh?
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  • EpidemicEpidemic Dark Force Gorge Join Date: 2003-06-29 Member: 17781Members
    Every crime should be death penalty, let's test the ironproof pages of the law <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • SpacerSpacer Invented dogs Join Date: 2003-05-02 Member: 16008Members
    MUSIC IS MURDER! MUSIC IS MURDER!
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  • Nemesis_ZeroNemesis_Zero Old European Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 75Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    If you are on the stocks, invest into building companies now. If they want to go through with this, they need just about ten times the current prison space <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • SwiftspearSwiftspear Custim tital Join Date: 2003-10-29 Member: 22097Members
    God bless canada.
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  • Status_QuoStatus_Quo Join Date: 2004-01-30 Member: 25749Members
    They might as well build a wall around every nation with access to the Internet right now.
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    Next up, stopping warez. Nuclear war with China, here we come.

    I told you that warez would bring about the apocalypse, didn't I?
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  • Private_ColemanPrivate_Coleman PhD in Video Games Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7510Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-lolfighter+Apr 22 2005, 06:14 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (lolfighter @ Apr 22 2005, 06:14 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I told you that warez would bring about the apocalypse, didn't I? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    When was this again? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • X_StickmanX_Stickman Not good enough for a custom title. Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15533Members, Constellation
    Well you know, file sharing is kinda sharp.... I guess you could accidentally cut someone fatally with it.
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  • SkySky Join Date: 2004-04-23 Member: 28131Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->But the 109th Congress is about nothing if not morality, and it understands well the essential sacredness of the nation's ruling cartels.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Owned.
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  • othellothell Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4183Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Maybe a little more research would make this seem less of a surprise...

    So, how does everything stack up?

    <a href='http://www.ussc.gov/ANNRPT/2002/table13.pdf' target='_blank'>http://www.ussc.gov/ANNRPT/2002/table13.pdf</a>
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  • frostymoosefrostymoose Join Date: 2003-09-12 Member: 20799Members
    edited April 2005
    So what. Downloading music/ movies illegally is NOT THAT HARD TO AVOID.
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  • aeroripperaeroripper Join Date: 2005-02-25 Member: 42471NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation
    No wonder we have the highest prison population in the world.
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  • RenegadeRenegade Old school Join Date: 2002-03-29 Member: 361Members
    Proof that our government gets stupider by the day.
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  • AbraAbra Would you kindly Join Date: 2003-08-17 Member: 19870Members
    hypotetisk spørgsmål her,

    lets say some 15 year old guy from denmark downloads music, what would the risk be and what would the fine be?

    just a hypo...hypho...hippotheatrical question.
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  • Amped1Amped1 Join Date: 2003-02-08 Member: 13287Members
    If I remember correctly a similar outrage was expressed when people found out that the Janet Jackson scandal warranted a higher fine that that of detonating a nuclear device too close to a city.
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  • reasareasa Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 8010Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Abra+Apr 22 2005, 05:17 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Abra @ Apr 22 2005, 05:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> lets say some 15 year old guy from denmark downloads music, what would the risk be and what would the fine be?



    <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    A 15 megaton warhead detonated over Copenhagen followed by a night-time invasion of the mainland by 15,000 marines supported by the USS Roosevelt.
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