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Originally Posted by azazel1024
Except if you look at the charges against the captain, he is charged with abandoning ship.
quote, "According to Italian navigation code, a captain who abandons ship before others are safe can face up to 12 years in prison"
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Thanks for correcting me. I got my info from newspapers which only mentioned that the US laws do not require this without specifying how it is in Italy.
Actually ship and airplane travel nowadays is very safe. Costa Concordia is most likely an aberration. But it is significant because it happened exactly because the safety rules were not followed. The same about the current economic crisis. It didn't happen because of natural disasters like floods, droughts or wars but because some leading bankers got greedy and lacked moral responsibility. And when the economy run aground, they abandoned the sinking ship, figuratively speaking.
I am not for total and unrestricted piracy. There should be rules and content creators should receive well deserved compensation. But I am concerned that some big companies are getting too greedy and are lobbying for laws that will lead to decrease in original content. It can also become a recession of freedom of expression and so on.