Serious Copyright Infringers Face Up to Six Years in Prison Under New Swedish Law

[upnorth]

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https://torrentfreak.com/serious-copyright-infringers-face-up-to-six-years-in-prison-under-new-swedish-law-200314/

A draft law in Sweden envisions much tougher penalties for serious copyright infringement. Under current rules, sentences carry fines and/or prison terms up to a maximum of two years. Under the new proposals, serious copyright-related crimes would be treated more harshly, with prison sentences starting at six months and going all the way to a maximum of six years.

For more than a decade, rightsholders and anti-piracy groups in Sweden have criticized the scale of the penalties available for courts to hand down in cases of serious copyright infringement. Perhaps the most famous case, involving the people behind The Pirate Bay, ended with defendants Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundström originally receiving eight, ten and four months in prison. As things stand the absolute maximum sentence is two years. The government now wants to challenge the status quo with changes to the law that will see the most egregious infringers jailed for much longer.

 

[TairikuOkami]

Time to raise the anchor and sail away.



I have done it a long time ago. I buy DVDs as a licence, copy DVD without menus and ADs and backup it to the cloud. Online streaming services are unreliable, they can remove content at any time, not to mention prices. I bought original Die Hard Quadrology DVD for 2€, including postage.

 

[Antus67]

The old saying goes You play wih fire you get burnt" The law is the law these people need to pay attention to it.

 

[Cortex]

I rip DVD's & CD's over the years CD's to HQ FLAC - DVD's to a reasonable resolution, works well. I use Spotify but on there albums you love disappear in a flash of light with no explanation. In the UK ripping music (even if you have the physical media) was illegal, then was OK then now not legal, I wonder if those who make this prehistoric rules have ever visited the planet Earth?

 

[morgning]

Well that's actually right in my opinion... Imagine the copyright owners, they lose so many money and if I was one of them I would be quite offended if people just pirate my content

 

[Antus67]

You play with fire you get burned. copyright owners are entitled for compensation.

 

[blacksheep]

RIP all Swedish VPN providers who allow P2P

 

[upnorth]

Hello neighbors.