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Originally Posted by HarryT
Nobody is suggesting that copyright infringement should be punished by "several decades in jail" - please don't put words into peoples' mouths.
The issue is not the scale of punishments for copyright infringement, but the fact that the entire legal process is beyond the reach of all but the largest companies, and so unwieldy that it's effectively unenforcible. I don't know the details of what this BREIN group is proposing, but something really does need to be done to allow small content producers to take advantage of the protection that the law claims to offer them, but in reality doesn't.
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Your reasoning would allow a small group of concerned citizens to grab potential witnesses, force them to testify under penalty of some immediate punishment and then to "lynch" a supposed wrong doer on their own.
Matter of fact, who would need witnesses. The concerned citizens might not have the time, resources, or the inclination to wait around for such niceties.
I can see the slogan now: "Hang them first and let God sort them out!"