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So what is bugging me is, that people that pirate digital software get punished way harder than
rapists, child abusers etc., because no money was "stolen" or "lost" in the process.

I couldn't find many more articles other than this very small thing here, I am sure they are out there, I read
up on them a couple of years back but this issue was called back into my memory after reading another topic here on steamgifts where a user called pirates "worthless scum".

Anyway, what do you guys think? Shouldn't courts punish properly for hurting other people, other than "hurting companies money"?

I for one think it is a joke to charge a million dollars and a 10 year prison vacation to a pirateer that shared a song to say 20 of his friends, while child abusers get 2 years and 10.000 dollar fines?

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Answer the title, Not helpful but yeah:

http://www.humanforsale.com/

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I'll buy that one for a dollar

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Yay I'm worth $2,802,230!Not bad for someone still studying.

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Half of that stuff I don't even know what it is, and the other half is in American units

What the hell is SAT or GPA?

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American junk... ;D

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WOW, this is so freaking retarded. O___O

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Totally .. :3

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Funny, I give you that

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he beat me to it was gona post the same vid XD

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That's messed up.

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I agree. Saw for example a trial against a granny for downloading like 30-40 songs illegally and was convicted to pay hundreds of thousands dollar as a fine. I don't remember of she also had to go to prison. But it's rediculous certainly when u know that like at least 75% of all people downloads something illegaly.

And some 18y old guy who illegaly downloaded some shit and now has to pay of a fine the rest of his life...
If u ask me they should imprison those people who made these laws and the judges who enforce them for corruption. Because for example politicians only made these laws so extremely severe because the entertainment industry gives them money for their campaign and in return they do this bs. If you ask me this is clearly corruption. This happens a lot and with a lot of thing in america. For example also with the arms and oil industry.

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I agree with you

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@title, since the OP doesnt interest me: assuming it is a single human without any of the relations or posessions that makes your average person "valuable", then zilch/a nickel for the bullet required to remove said life.

piracy though, thats an easy target considering most people dont understand a pc well enough to understand the distinction between legally/illegally downloading

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Kill a person and 1-10 people pay the price. Pirate a song and a whole industry suffers irredeemable harm. Seems fair to me.

(I shouldn't need to mention but yes, that was sarcasm.)

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3 stores and 700 camels. That's what they offered for my sister in Egypt 8 years ago. With inflation that would probably be more now.

On another note. When a corporation pushes a punishment for stealing from them, they don't consider punishes for other crimes not connected to them. This should be the governments duty to balance these, but since a corporation that brings in money is far more important to them than you, we have riots.

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Sounds like a good deal, I would have taken that deal.

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Probably now it will be something like 3 stores, 9 camel, 2 kgs of opium and a dishwasher, lol
Great deal if you ask for my opinion, Hahhahahhahahaah

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I don't get the reference :(

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Reference? That was really offered for my sister. She has very pale skin so the people there went mental. There are times now where I think we should have accepted the offer.

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That's too much, in some African countries it's worth 10 pigs or goats i think.

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Ofc I agree with you OP.

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I usually pay 300 bucks a head. You get a much better rate if you go for the group discounts though.

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Well, at least piracy in Finland is going to drop.

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It's very simple, fear.

When people commit crimes like rape or murder, they usually aren't thinking about the consequences. Piracy is viewed as such a trivial crime, that people understand that it's wrong, but aren't afraid of getting caught. As people start getting punished, other people will start to think twice about it.

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Fines are usually relatively small. Unless you are speeding and you are making lot of money... Then it's just a few hundred thousand at best :(

The calculation of damages is crazy though...

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That really sucks. I wouldn't let them out for 1st degree murder.

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Probably he hosted a DC-hub or uploaded the songs to bittorrent... And then they used some insane calculations...

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about three fiddy

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The quantity of money someone's life is worth depends entirely on the person, most are worth nothing (just as trash is worth nothing) while others (like me) are worth millions...

As for sentences, firstly it depends on your countries legal system, and secondly it depends on the prosecutor(s) and defense lawyer(s).

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How much is humans life worth? It really depends on the human, that we're talking about. If it's a murderer, rapist, animal killer, it's really worth as much as his organs. Noone would miss that piece of sh1t if he get's murdered. If it's a good person, it's priceless. Because you dont know, how many peoples he could help by staying alive. That's my opinion.

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But if he doesn't and has the power and is murderer?

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i think you have this issue arse-backwards to be honest.

punishments for pirates is fine and JUST, its the punishments for rapists, murderers and abusers that completely out of balance and needs a massive increase.

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So much this. In some countries you can get away with murder and only serve 2-4 years in jail, jail with plenty amenities such as internet access, TV, ability to get a degree or two (depending on time served, Norwegian homicidal maniac comes to mind)..

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And in some countries if you are powerfull you can do anything...

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Not much.

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Usualy value of life is set when death arrives. Mainly on a war or an accident... and the value is not very high on the most rich countries. Of course the value is much lower on poor countries. For example deaths on Bangladesh from people making what you wear now.

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