Comments on: Camcorder man jailed for 7 years

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:44:01 +0000

He would likely recieve the maximum pentalty for jaywalking.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:41:44 +0000

Apparently you missed the part where he snuck into screenings posing as an insider and selling pre release copies?

“By beating the public release of blockbuster films, he claimed in his diary to be clearing as much as $4,500 a week.”

He is ACTUALLY a pirate… noob.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 07:32:45 +0000

“I think this guy would have gotten a harsh sentence even if he was caught jaywalking.”

Which of course means that a person is being punished a second time for the same crime. That is de facto (if not legal) double jeopardy in my book. It also means that someone is punished for something that was not judged.

Let’s not make the legal system more unstable than it is, which is extremely unstable.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:40:05 +0000

I think normally a fair punishment for this would be to have the camcorder confiscated and maybe a fine. I would like to see what kind of sentence gets handed out to someone with no felony criminal record. Ordinarily I would say even one day in jail would be too much for this crime, but the U.S. crimial justice system does take a person’s prior criminal record into account. I think this guy would have gotten a harsh sentence even if he was caught jaywalking.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:24:48 +0000

This only shows how whacky the judicial system has become.

In my casewe proved that many songs were “stolen”. Meaning that two music publishers took the songs as if they owned them and exploited them commercially. Even registering many the stolen songs at the US Copyright Office, while preventing us from collecting about $1,000,000 in royalties (current value) from records RIAA members Sony and Sonolux made (illegally, without our authorization)

The sentence: $21,000 split between two music publishers.
Our cost to recoup yjis huge award: Over $200,000.

Details can be seen here:
THE COST OF GETTING $21,000 AWARDS: OVER $250,000
http://rafa_venegas.web.prdigital.com/awardcosts.htm

And someone gets 7 years jail time for maing a worthless copy of a movie, when a favorite hobby of Americans is to buy 100unit packs of blank DVDs, guess for what? Copying movies for private viewing.

Clearly the criminalzation of the average American is progressing very fast, while the hoods get away with murder by simply buying the judge.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:38:09 +0000

Taking this kind of action against a villified member of society for whom most people have no respect for is a great way to set precedent. If nobody fights to get this a$$h01e’s sentence reduced to a reasonable one, it will set precedent that will be used against ordinary hardworking people. This guy should be made to pay (actual not imaginary) damages + court costs if anything.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:17:13 +0000

I agree Mike. But don’t you think 7 years is a bit steep?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:26:32 +0000

Anyone who has read my previous posts knows I have no love for the MPAA/RIAA, but I have no sympathy for this dickhead.
“He’d been convicted of petit larceny and assault with intent to cause serious injury with a weapon after shooting someone in the face with a handgun”
He probably plead that down from attempted murder, as you don’t shoot someone in the face unless you want to kill them. What I think happened is the judge took one look at that and gave him the max, your prior record does count against you in a court of law. I don’t agree with prosecuting people for camcording movies, but I have a feeling this “gentleman” would have been standing before a judge again anyway.
I do have sympathy for the housewives, little kids, sick people and even relatives of dead people who have been harassed by the entertainment industry. Violent hoods never get my sympathy.