[Cdn-DMCA] CAAST calls for review of piracy penalties

[Fergal Warde]

I'm against any criminal penalties for piracy on the basis that prisons 
should focus more on crimes such as murder, rape, and violent offenses. I'm 
ok with fines against businesses. But organizations like CAAST need to be 
kept on a short leash. They have ties with the BSA (the same people who got 
Muslim clerics to issue a "holy edict" against software piracy. /. link: 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/31/1651254&mode=thread&tid=99 . 
Organizations like CAAST want to make people (And the government 
unfortunately) think that software piracy is a more serious crime than 
violent offenses. This is simply not the case, and this is one of the 
reasons that I'm totally against criminal penalties in the upcoming 
copyright reforms.

my two cents.

-Fergal
(who is neither trying to promote or condemn piracy!)

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