Australian ‘pirate’ jailed fo 9 months
p2pnet news view | Crime:- A 45-year-old Australian has been sentenced to nine months in jail for selling counterfeit discs, says Perth Now.
Qing Wang pleaded guilty to more than 30 offences, “relating to copyright theft, exposed during a NSW Police raid on a Sydney market in May last year,” says the story.
Do counterfeiters ’steal’ copyrights, or do they infringe them?
Anyway, the matter was, “brought before the courts as a result of some tenacious investigative work by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft and NSW Police,” says the story.
Criminal penalties for copyright infringement in Oz are are up to $60,500 and five years in the nick per offence for individuals, and up to $302,500 for corporations, states Perth Now.
Perth Now – Music industry applauds record sentence for piracy, May 1, 2009
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May 1st, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Up to 5 years?
Thats a joke right?
Child molesters get less.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:42 pm
They always choose their words carefully to give the impression that these acts are worse than they truly are. Hence the frequently used terms “pirate” and “theft”. To me copyright infringement is a non crime and is universally derided as evidenced by the wide scale civil disobedience . Non solum sed etiam, the term “pirate” is simply puerile when real pirates are operating out of the coast of somalia, for how can the designation be shared between two entirely unrelated activities? One involves murderous, kidnapping, and plundering sea brigands, and the other the distribution of digital content. I don’t understand it, where is the relationship?
May 1st, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Actually i agree with this! I dont have a problem with people sharing movies & music with each other for personal use, but this is commercial copyright infringement & should be punished. The sentence is inappropriate though, but i HATE our aussie law system with an absolute passion. Where else can a grandfather with his family on a picnic get his head bashed in with a cricket bat & his murderer only get 3 years? Its sickening.
May 1st, 2009 at 11:43 pm
are those prison bars made of wood?
May 2nd, 2009 at 1:33 am
Good, he should get jail time, trying to make money off of free movies, o well he gets what he deserves.
May 2nd, 2009 at 3:06 pm
OH NOES, THARE STILIN MAH COPYRITES!
I had to say that in response to the term “copyright theft”
But in reality, this ought to be called counterfeiting or bootlegging, and
is the kind of copyright infringement that should be punished, not the
use of p2p.
Selling copyrighted content goes against the very concept of filesharing.
May 4th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
you know, in mexico you can find these mini moving stores everywhere, cd’s, dvd’s, vhs tapes, even cd’s they mix and make their “own” its been goin on for years now, and when police gets their stuff magically noone gets jail time… ain’t it amazing? i believe that’s a better way to stop it from my point of view. I am not against sharing all that for personal use, it’s the ones that make profit out of it that they have to get.