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Words Of Wisdom said:
ZenfoldorVGI said:

Here, the suicide rate for young white males sentenced to relatively short prison terms is very, very high after a couple of days in gen-pop. My brother works as a guard over there. No AC, deep south 110 degrees, stinks. Makes you think twice about catching that DUI. It's a horrible, horrible place, prison in Mississippi. Avoid it at all costs.

There, fixed that for ya.  ^_^

 

lol, it's like if the evil side of hell had a raping room where you had to go if you were bad, it would be prison in Mississippi. Your woosie northern jails are like our public schools.

 

PS: Always go to jail somewhere, where it's cold. They are required to heat you, they aren't required to cool you.



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Final-Fan said:
ferret1603 said:
ssj12 said:
Godot said:
Lord N said:
First of all, morals and ethics are completely subjective.

While I don't think there's anything wrong with someone doing it for their own personal use, I am against people doing it for money because they are profiting from someone else's work.

That being said, this is way too harsh. Copyright infringement when done for profit should be punished with fines and not being able to use the internet or a computer for a while, not jail time.
I agree. There's too much effort wasted trying to fight copyright infringement while there are much more serious criminals to fight.
I second this. Jail time was a bit harsh. Just heavy fines would have done, not taking up a jail cell's spot from a murder or someone who more deserves that spot.
QFT.

I disagree.  Fines alone could be seen as merely "if they catch you, you lose your ill-gotten gains"; and considering what the odds against an individual pirate being caught are, that if makes it hardly a deterrent at all. 

Some jail time for massive offenses is appropriate (these guys had for-profit illegal businesses), and the jail sentences are short -- less than one year and barely more than a year, respectively; that is not what I would call a huge burden on our jail system.  It's not like they're arresting these guys by the hundreds like they do with marijuana.

Which is a complete waste anyways when they could just legalize it and tax the hell out of it. That way you can get revenue off of it. Drug dealers have one less thing that they can sell, you don't see drug dealers selling cigarettes or alcohol now do you?, cut down prison expenses and get increases revenue from DUI charges due to people driving under the influence of weed.

Basically that would be a major win in both intelligence and the tax payers.

 



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halogamer1989 said:
The Internet is not part of the United States--that's my ethics.

That almost works.  Unless you are located in the US using a US computer, or sending things to a US citizen located within the US.  But otherwise yes, if you are in Europe, you don't have to follow US law. 

I mean, think of this example, an individual is watching child porn.  Can we not arrest him, because the internet is the twilight zone where nobody can punish you for anything?

 



stof said:
Serves them right for getting caught. A true Video Pirate leaves no witnesses


Any may his fist be always read for the knockdown blow!

 



I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.

NO NO, NO NO NO.