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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
well, hopefully the pirat parti in sweden will gain some power soon
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You are joking, I hope? You don't really want a group of people who have absolutely no respect for the rights and livelyhood of authors and musicians to come to power, do you? Or don't you believe that anyone has the right to make a living by writing books or music?
Legislation to allow people who illegally download material from the internet to be tracked down and published is absolutely vital, IMHO. Of course, there need to be "checks and balances" to ensure that only people who really have committed crimes are punished. As things stand at present, however, the activities of the criminals have "out-stripped" the ability of current legislation to punish, and that's clearly a situation which needs to be rectified.