| ZenfoldorVGI said: ...well how bout this. When you get caught for piracy exceeding a certain relatively small amount... YOU DO GET TO GO TO FEDERAL PRISON Yet, I'm batshit crazy. Except that the legal system agrees with my worst, most hostile wishes. You have a problem with the US legal system, if you have a problem with the punishment not fitting the crime. It's actually a stiffer penalty than child molestation in some states. And yes, it should carry a stiff penalty. Punishment is sometimes used as an example, and doesn't always fit the crime. Especially in real like, not some hypothetical question that we debate on these forums. Pirating IS illegal, arbitrary or not, and doing it makes you a criminal, and in the eyes of the law, you're a much worse criminal than one would assume, for doing so, and might, just might, end up in that federal pen, where what happens? You know what happens. 20 year old skinny dork pirates are like PS3 exclusives in there. They get everybody talking, and then you really learn the meaning of a used game. |
I'm sorry, what? To the best of my knowledge, pirating content for yourself is copyright infringement. That's a civil matter, not a federal crime. Selling might be something else altogether, I don't know the specific, but you name me one person who's ever gone to jail for downloading video games off of the internet.
