Swedish Govt Mulls Tougher Punishments To Tackle Pirate Sites (torrentfreak.com) 70
Authorities in Sweden are mulling new measures to deal with evolving 'pirate' sites. As part of a legislative review, the government wants to assess potential legal tools, including categorizing large-scale infringement as organized crime, tougher sentences, domain seizures, and site-blocking, reports TorrentFreak. From the article: Sweden is now considering its options when it comes to its future prosecutions of large-scale copyright infringement cases. As part of a review now underway, the government is accessing the powers it needs to deal with more serious cases of copyright infringement. Police national coordinator for intellectual property crimes Paul Pinter hopes that any changes will enable police to operate more efficiently in the future. "If you have a felony, you can get access to a whole new toolkit. In the terms of reference for the inquiry, the government mentions almost all of the points that we have previously proposed," he told IDG. Considering the way anti-piracy enforcement has developed over the past several years, few of the suggestions from the police come as a surprise. At the top of the tree is treating pirate site operators as more than just large-scale copyright infringers. The Justice Department says that due to the manner in which sites are organized and the subsequent development of revenue, treating them as self-contained crime operations may be appropriate.
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I say that they're probably not going to solve either problem.
If they can, the rest of the world would certainly want to know HOW!
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and we definitely should be locking up anyone who fucks a copyright thief.
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No, but Sweden does have a very broad definition of rape, things that in many countries wouldn't even be considered illegal, are considered rape in Sweden.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Anyways, why bother with facts when you can use #alternativefacts, the latter doesn't even require any references.
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By your own links the number of reported rapes have gone from 4208 in 2005 to 5918 in 2015, that is in increase by 41% and not 1500%.
Your second link for the "reported gang rapes" says that this was a measurement up to 2006 which is long before the current migration that you are talking about. Also it talks about alcohol being the main culprit, that the legal definition change that GP talked about explains some of the increases and so on.
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That would only be applicable to the situation if Sweden had high rapes rate that remained unchanged. Instead, it has steadily increased as more and more refugees arrive.
Figuring out the question first is vital in stats (Score:2)
Did you know that in the last 15 years there is a very high correlation between the rate of margarine consumption and the divorce rate in Maine, so obviously we if we want to protect children from divorce we should ban margarine (which is a french invention anyways).
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No.
Long answer:
The Sweden story has become absolutely viral. You’ve probably read a version in a Facebook post, or heard it in a speech or debate. It is the argument-ender of the intolerant: To make the case against refugees, or immigration, or “Islam,” you recount a couple of stories about refugee-camp horrors, some random anecdotes of sex crimes involving brown people in various countries, and then drop the Sweden story.
Behind it you’ll find the resurrectio
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Yes, pretty much. (Expat here, have lived in Stockholm for about 10 years now.)
You should also be aware that, in Sweden, any sort of attention given to a member of the opposite sex that is not very "strictly business" tends to be regarded as sexual interest. Especially if you are male. For example, do not ever compliment a female coworker on anything to do with her appearance unless you know her extremely well--9 times out of ten, this will be regarded as though you're hitting on her.
Swedish office culture
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Why the difference? Because people who go to Sweden are poorer, and crime rates are mostly a product not of ethnicity but of class. In a 2013 analysis of 63,000 Swedish residents, Prof. Sarnecki and his colleagues found that 75 per cent of the difference in foreign-born crime is accounted for by income and neighbourhood, both indicators of poverty. Among the Swedish-born children of immigrants, the crime rate falls in half (and is almost entirely concentrated in lesser property crimes) and is 100-per-cent attributable to class – they are no more likely to commit crimes, including rape, than ethnic Swedes of the same family income.
In other words, do NOT import poor refugees. Sounds like an important lesson to take away.
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What "rape gangs"? You would think that European media would report these, but there is nothing. Seems to be FakeNews that is part of a propaganda campaign serving to keep the US in fear because of "how bad it is in Europe already". Fact is, except for some isolated incidents, this does problem does not exist.
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Reading comprehension and comprehension of situation described: Fail
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There were a few rapes in Koeln, but not more than usual at that time and not on the streets and not by immigrants specifically. The problem there was assault and robbery, and it most definitely was an isolated incident that did not repeat this year.
Europe is not falling to the barbarian hordes at all, even if some people want to create that impression.
Wow, Al Capone is now == Pirate Bay (Score:5, Insightful)
Treating copyright infringement the same as organized crime sounds like an MPAA/RIAA-controlled alternate reality. I guess a lot of money went into "convincing" the right people for this legislative "review".
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Meanwhile, Switzerland decriminalized "piracy" for self-use (i.e. cannot sell pirated materials) as perfectly fucking fine... and nothing bad has happened.
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The process was a bit differently though: First, the government commissioned an independent scientific study, i.e. one done by actual reputable scientists, not industry lobbyists and the like. That showed what everybody not utterly dumb already knows: Piracy hurts the big artists somewhat (they still have large profits), but is a boon for the small ones, because they get exposure and more customers that way. Overall, the study concluded that the second effect is a bit stronger than the former and that the g
Re:Wow, Al Capone is now == Pirate Bay (Score:5, Informative)
Going after the actual pirate sites is a step in the right direction. It only took these imbeciles ten friggin' years to figure it out. That said, I will still snicker out loud every time I read about pirate sites evading the RIAA / MPAA. I don't visit any pirate sites. But I am far more sympathetic to them than to the RIAA / MPAA.
Finally, some of these 'pirate sites' are not actually pirate sites at all. Megaupload, for example. Sometimes the RIAA / MPAA goes after an entire 'technology'. Like suing Diamond Rio for making one of the first mp3 player devices! Or the ridiculous Megaupload raid because some people used it for copyright infringement.
It would be off topic to mention things like Hollywood Accounting, or how record labels screw over artists, or "collection societies" which are nothing more than extortion rackets -- sometimes trying to "collect" on music that they don't even represent. Or the stretching the bounds of copyright beyond recognition, such as playing the radio in an auto mechanic garage counts as a public performance and needs an expensive annual license. So I won't mention those things, since they are off topic.
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I think you missed a key word.
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Combined with that, the recent case against "Swefilmer" shows that they made euro 1 400 000 from advertisement, so they goverment feels that slapping a fine on an operation such as swefilmer is n
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Prolly not, as is. On the other hand, if the fine were Euro 2 000 000.....
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Not only the last couple of years. Sweden already showed to be very helpfull to enforce US copyright trolls like scientology in the 1990's: see https://culteducation.com/grou... [culteducation.com]
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If you were to "borrow" my stuff, I would no longer have it. If you were to use my bed, I would no longer have access to it (unless I wanted to spoon, but I imagine you have a potent odour). On the other hand, if you were to listen in on me playing the cello, it wouldn't harm me at all while (hopefully) educating you.
The most perplexing thing is this -
Mmmm.... hey.... give me that research report you wrote up, I want to use it too. Heck, I'm not hurting anyone when I use your work.
Do you not know how the current academic system works? You are more than welcome to my research - it directly benefits me when you use it. Your ignorance rega
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Unless we're talking about a really weird circumcision where they actually encode a serial number during the cutting, only the number tattooed can be used to track you.
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Baltic sea? (Score:1)
Mobile pirate sites in Swedish waters are already subject to Swedish law. [telegraph.co.uk]
I'm pretty sure it's already a felony.
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DRM represents a market failure. If good-quality offers without DRM are available, profits time and again turn out to be entirely fine. Enough people are willing to pay to keep the artists afloat nicely. It is just the bad-quality offerings, the over-priced ones, the ones not available that "need" DRM. DRM is a technology that serves only to create artificial scarcity, and that is universally evil.
Scoff Laws and Fair Play (Score:2)
20 years and there's still no solid evidence... (Score:3)
20 years later and there's still no solid evidence that online "piracy" actually financially harms anybody.
Information wants to be free and that is never going to change. How many times do we have to go over this?
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Pirate punishment? (Score:2)
Internet to Sweden! Come in, Sweden! (Score:2)