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Finland: piracy fines are orders of magnitude higher than rape, torture, murder
- bediger4000 14y agoI heard Colorado's US Senator Michael Bennet advocating larger penalties for some crimes against people (assault, I believe, but I'm not certai) because the current penalty for the physical crime is less than the penalty for copyright infringement of some trivial amount of music. That is, lobbyists have gotten a lot of countries to give out worse penalties for downloading than for real crimes. I the USA, where "tough on crime" is a Very Good Quality in a politician, these ridiculous infringement penalties get used to justify harsher, even more ludicrous penalties for other crimes. Conspiracy or unintended side effect - you be the judge!