Caught on the Net: Online Pirates Could Face 10 Years in Jail in UK

‘The British government wants to up the maximum sentence for online pirates from two years to ten. Under pressure from copyright holders and the UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO), the government is trying to find a way to stop online piracy.

According to the IPO, copyright infringement on the Internet is basically counterfeiting and should carry the same sentence of ten years in jail.

But there is no such law in the UK at the moment and the proposed legislation is targeted at beating organized online crime – the operators, not the users.’

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