One is running some nobodies over, the other making a rich guy some pennies less rich.
Must set a precedent, y’know?
Comment on FBI nabs worker at DVD company for ripping prerelease blockbusters
Veedem@lemmy.world 2 days ago
15 years? Wow. He could have run down multiple pedestrians, killed one of them, and used a false insurance claim to try to cover it up and gotten a third of that.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
on paper
It’s making them less rich only if you assume pirated copies would’ve been sales. That’s generally not the case, and piracy can often increase sales by pirates recommending things to people who will actually buy.
Broken@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Goes to show, he should have made a run for it and hit a bunch of people with his car. Then he’d get a reduced sentence.
booly@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
People generally aren’t sentenced to the maximum penalty for a crime, so it’s not very useful to compare the maximum potential sentence for a charged crime versus the actual sentence received after conviction on another crime. The Indianapolis hit and run carried potential penalties of more than 15 years. This DVD guy will probably get less than 5.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Just goes to show how horrendous this sort of crime is. I hear dvd pirates are on the same cell blocks as pedophiles in prison.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What? Really? I would have thought dvd pirates would have far worse conditions than pedophiles.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
That depends, is the pedophile a high profile person or a creepy poor person?
AnotherPenguin@programming.dev 1 day ago
Don’t let it fool you. Serial pirates are the biggest enemy of mankind. We should strive together to make sure they get the penalty they serve.