Rape: 8yrs; Murder: 15yrs; Copyright Infringement: Life?

The RIAA and the US attorney general are at it again in the USA.

They have submitting a bill to congress with a proposal to increase the sentence for Copyright Infringement to life imprisonment in a lovely US jail. 

Their excuse? Terrorism of course!

      "     life imprisonment for copyright offences which endanger life and Homeland Security reporting to the RIAA when someone tries to sneak a pirated CD across the border     "   

This is not all! In the new bill the following measures are being proposed:-

• 'Attempted' Copyright Infringement – 10 years
  Simply trying to download a chart-topping hit from Britney Spears counts for 10-years in a pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
• Using Pirated Software – Life
  They're so desperate to stop people from 'stealing' non-tangibe material that they're willing to put you in the slammer for longer that a consecutive rape, kidnap and murder charge.
• Allow of wiretaps to suspected copyright infringers
• “Require Homeland Security to alert the Recording Industry Ass. of America. That would happen when CDs with "unauthorized fixations of the sounds, or sounds and images, of a live musical performance" are attempted to be imported.” (CNet News)

The US Government and the RIAA knows no bounds. They cannot distinguish between a 12-year old kid giving a DVD to his mate, and a mass-producing factory pumping out 10,000 DVDs a day. There's a stark difference in the amount of 'theft' that's occurring, but not in their money greedy eyes there isn't.

In fact, with this new law you would do less time robbing a bank (7 years) and then going to the shops and buying the CDs and DVDs! Madness!

Get some perspective!