Wednesday 14 September 2016
In an effort to stamp out online piracy, the United Kingdom could soon impose a maximum 10 year sentence for file sharers. The Digital Economy bill, now on its second reading in Parliament and inching ever closer to becoming law, seeks to jail online pirates with sentences that would normally be reserved for hardened criminals. Due to UK copyright law ‘only’ allowing two year custodial sentences under current guidelines, anti-piracy groups such as the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) have often chosen to seek harsher sentences intended for those committing fraud, rather than the appropriate charge of copyright infringement. Under the new…
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