That is disgusting. What are these people on?
Don't even THINK about copyright violation, says Indian state
In a move that has garnered little notice beyond India, the Government of Karnataka state early in August passed laws allowing it to pre-emptively arrest copyright suspects. The change happened in the first week of August, when the state amended its Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug-Offenders, Gamblers, …
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Friday 22nd August 2014 05:08 GMT Flocke Kroes
They are just following the UK's existing laws
According to the MPAA, bootleg DVDs fund terrorism. If you are suspected of terrorism in the UK, you can be held without being charged for 28 days (The plan was for 90 days but we have been spared that for the time being).
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Friday 22nd August 2014 06:28 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: They are just following the UK's existing laws
According to the MPAA, bootleg DVDs fund terrorism. If you are suspected of terrorism in the UK, you can be held without being charged for 28 days (The plan was for 90 days but we have been spared that for the time being).
Nice try, but it's not *that* easy - you need quite a bit more than a flimsy excuse to get locked up under anti-terror laws, it's not the US just yet.
However, this law strikes me more as a way to "legalise" random arrests and entrapment. Fabricate some "evidence" and off you go - they can keep you for as much as a year and then say "oops". Not a place I want to visit, because that seems to me a rich source for police driven extortion.
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Friday 22nd August 2014 08:03 GMT Pascal Monett
Hang on, isn't there a contradiction there ?
"no bail under the “Goondas Act”, and that the national Copyright Act only allows someone to be jailed after conviction"
So they are jailed for intent to breach the Copyright Act - which they have not yet done - and get no bail, but are still jailed before being convicted. Does India have an equivalent to the Supreme Court ? Because it sure seems somebody needs to throw a monkey wrench in there.
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Friday 22nd August 2014 08:25 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Hang on, isn't there a contradiction there ?
Does India have an equivalent to the Supreme Court ? Because it sure seems somebody needs to throw a monkey wrench in there.
The very fact that this passed into law without this obvious defect being addressed suggests a seriously dodgy ulterior motive.
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Friday 22nd August 2014 10:14 GMT Anonymous Coward
As per the records from past few years, here in India, piracy or social network behaviors mostly being used for targeting political victims. So, you can guess that general public is not be bothered until they find that a minister looks funny.
e.g.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Online-posts-against-Narendra-Modi-spell-trouble/articleshow/36635876.cms
PS: Why anonymous? Because this post contains highly irresponsible content.
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Saturday 23rd August 2014 17:49 GMT Anonymous Coward
Belgium is a special case. At one time, I found it second on the list of world's most corrupt countries but that's a while back. It is entirely possible to come with a car from a side street and intercept a cyclist on a priority road, drag them along for a good 100m before you finally come to a stop and then have the CYCLIST convicted for being careless. All you need is to be friends with the judge.
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