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Originally Posted by stonetools
If there is effective law enforcement and people start going to jail for violating the law, that will be all the influence young, impresssionable minds will need.
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Bearing in mind two people were recently jailed for 5 years for gang raping an 11 year old girl, what would you say was a suitable sentence for downloading a Harry Potter ebook from a pirate site?
Apart from anything else, have you thought about the logistics of putting 10% of the population in jail? Taxes would need to increase by a massive amount to pay for it. You're talking about £40,000 per year for each prisoner, and that's not including the cost of building all the new prisons you would need to fit them all in. Or the cost of policing the internet and gathering together enough evidence to convince a jury of their guilt.