What You In For? Murder? Rape? P2P-ing Prerelease Movies?
Wednesday, April 20th, 2005
Tuesday Congress passed a law citing up to 3 y ears of prison and up to $250,000.00 in fines for those movie pirates who make prerelease movies available for download.
Is it April first still? 3 years in prison?
After 10 seconds with our internet search crutch, Google, (searching: “three years in prison”), I found many cases a bit more worthy of three years in the big house. A football coach who molested his 10 year old player, a custodian who attached a teacher, and a hacker who accessed top secret documents from Swedish Telcom Co. Ericson.
The punishment must suit the crime. I fear that soon I’ll be reading about P2P sharers getting there left click finger chopped off for stripping the DMR off their audio files.
I love watching a good commercial. The hot in the sun Pepsi commercials with Cindy Crawford are an all time favorite of mine. Superbowl Sunday is often referred to Commercial Bowl Sunday round my neck of the woods. However, I’ve swallowed commercials with a grain of salt. I pay approximately $50.00 per month for cable TV and to no surprise not one channel omits the commercials. Movie theatres are now showing commercials before features. Don’t get me started on internet advertising… Spam, Pop-Ups, Adaware, Spyware!
