the UK appears to move doggedly ahead with a ten-year prison sentence for unauthorized sharing. This is not only against-productive, but stupid and ineffective. The facts show that not even a penalty horrible death discourages sharing between people. It is a deeply altruistic behavior inwired
The UK seems hellbent on pandering to the erosion of monopolies and increasing the maximum penalty for unauthorized sharing to ten years in prison. This is not only stupid and dumb, it is also against all the evidence that exists on what works for people to share less, assuming 1) that is in fact your goal - to prevent the economy come and share your own competitiveness - and 2) you do not include the "proof" control unverifiable and not subject provided by industries whose wages depend on them not to learn something about the world around them.
should assume that raising penalties like this - the fivefolding and legislating that unauthorized sharing is worse crime than manslaughter - expect the change to have some sort of effect. But all the evidence says he will not. Not at all.
There is a government on the planet that has already taken this to the extreme. And sanctions and punishments for unauthorized sharing does not work, period
North Korea has the worst imaginable pain -. punishment by death camp not only for you but also for your children and their children in turn - to be taken with any form of Western entertainment (always copied, of course). There is no legal defense for copy or fair dealing, or anything. In fact, there is not even the concept of a legal defense first. If you are even watch Culture copied, you are guilty.
This raises the question of how the North Korean government determines what movies people look? They do not have cameras in the living rooms. Well, it turns out that, when applying the media monopoly is, you can take a lot of shortcuts and make some sacrifices. They turn off the power to whole villages, raiding house by house, and see what DVDs stuck in players and unable to eject the power failure. Not even Hollywood suggested implementing measures. However.
The delivery here?
Punish three generations with the death penalty, using the ridiculously invasive application, do not discourage people to share entertainment.
The Daily Beast written testimonies of survivors of the hell that is North Korea:
Yeonmi park saw the mother of a friend be executed in public to watch DVD smuggling. But not even the threat of death can remove the desire to live vicariously through Jack Dawson and James Bond.
While the UK suggested a ten-year prison sentence instead of two years for an illegal copying, it can be predicted safely to have no effect whatsoever. This movement is ignorant of history, news, technology, and frankly, the way people essentially function. The only concern seems to be to preserve old crumbling vested interests at all costs, regardless of whether these actions even affect
But as we can see, even a much higher cost -. the point where it is difficult to imagine hardens on this "crime" - has an effect all in preventing generational change underway. Thus, the United Kingdom takes a huge cost to the population that has no effect at all, except perhaps preventing entrepreneurship, future jobs, and competitiveness on the other side this change.
You do not need to go to North Korea to see this contemporary part of human nature, by the way. (It is always easy to wave off North Korea as an aberrant Basketcase, even when he provides valuable information about human nature.) But you may as well look European history.
When the press arrived, the exact same thing with the previous guardians of media and entertainment. They have pushed for tougher and tougher laws until January 13, 1535, in France, the penalty for any use of a printing press has reached the death penalty. Again, even then, even then, he had no practical effect. (The official justification of the law was "to prevent the spread of dangerous ideas." Does that ring a bell rhetoric today?)
There is a similar story when cloth models for the nobility were copied by commoners, and punishment to do was "breaking on the wheel" - essentially an extended death penalty that took days of tortuous agony. There were places where over ten thousand people were executed as for unauthorized sharing. It does not always make a dent in people's behavior: we are simply too wired to share interesting and beautiful things, and that's a good thing
No punishment that humanity is capable of inventing ever. made a dent in the unauthorized sharing. Politicians in the UK are misguided and ignorant
Of course, the observation that not even the death penalty has deterred sharing and copying -. Either now or in the past - is a very liberating observation. Once you accept this simple fact for what it is, that any attempt to stop copying is unnecessary and a waste of effort, you can instead choose to focus on all positive effects of free sharing of knowledge and culture. It is what builds Industrialization and brought Europe out of the Middle Ages, so it can not be all bad.
Until politicians become able to observe the current reality instead of the interests wish for, your private life is your own responsibility.
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