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Why is it that when a company breaks copyright laws, the owner gets a severe sentence, but break environment laws or privacy laws and you usually only get a rap

Why is it that when a company breaks copyright laws, the owner gets a severe sentence, but break environment laws or privacy laws and you usually only get a rap on the wrist?

kazinator 4y ago
Simple: The Environment and Privacy aren't very good at lodging complaints, and showing up in court with good lawyers.
forinti 4y ago
It seems to me these blokes got jail time because they are small fish. Nobody goes to jail when it's Apple v Microsoft.
- tzs 4y ago
  The following is based on US law. Criminal law in a large fraction of other jurisdictions is broadly similar in this regard. When it is Apple v Microsoft or similar it is generally not willful infringement. Whichever side is being accused of infringement generally believes that either they did not copy from the other company, or that what they copied from the other company was not covered by copyright, or that their copying was covered by fair use, or their copying was covered by a license agreement they have with the copyright holder. Willfulness is an element of criminal copyright infringement.
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ur-whale 4y ago
Because no powerful lobby financed by media conglomerates exists to defend the environment or privacy, quite the contrary in fact.
- ospzfmbbzr 4y ago
  > Because no powerful lobby financed by media conglomerates exists to defend the environment This is false. The climate 'change' movement is 100% financed by these sort of entities -- to what end is an open question but it's not to save the planet and definitely not to save you or me. > privacy You are correct in that nobody fights for YOUR privacy but you will find all sorts of companies and governments protecting THEIR privacy with your money. Privacy is essential for sanity like the saying goes but the current plan seems to be to deny people privacy and make them crazy, meaning led around by their emotions, and consequently more easily controllable.
tokai 4y ago
Big companies should definitely face bigger legal trouble for their crimes. But what they were doing wasn't a business that they messed up. They ran a scam that provided a pirate stream and charged money for it. Good riddance.

Why is it that when a company breaks copyright laws, the owner gets a severe sentence, but break environment laws or privacy laws and you usually only get a rap on the wrist?

kazinator 4y ago

Simple: The Environment and Privacy aren't very good at lodging complaints, and showing up in court with good lawyers.

forinti 4y ago

It seems to me these blokes got jail time because they are small fish. Nobody goes to jail when it's Apple v Microsoft.

tzs 4y ago
The following is based on US law. Criminal law in a large fraction of other jurisdictions is broadly similar in this regard. When it is Apple v Microsoft or similar it is generally not willful infringement. Whichever side is being accused of infringement generally believes that either they did not copy from the other company, or that what they copied from the other company was not covered by copyright, or that their copying was covered by fair use, or their copying was covered by a license agreement they have with the copyright holder. Willfulness is an element of criminal copyright infringement.

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ur-whale 4y ago

Because no powerful lobby financed by media conglomerates exists to defend the environment or privacy, quite the contrary in fact.

ospzfmbbzr 4y ago
> Because no powerful lobby financed by media conglomerates exists to defend the environment This is false. The climate 'change' movement is 100% financed by these sort of entities -- to what end is an open question but it's not to save the planet and definitely not to save you or me. > privacy You are correct in that nobody fights for YOUR privacy but you will find all sorts of companies and governments protecting THEIR privacy with your money. Privacy is essential for sanity like the saying goes but the current plan seems to be to deny people privacy and make them crazy, meaning led around by their emotions, and consequently more easily controllable.

tokai 4y ago

Big companies should definitely face bigger legal trouble for their crimes. But what they were doing wasn't a business that they messed up. They ran a scam that provided a pirate stream and charged money for it. Good riddance.