Potentially facing over 30 years, Internet activist commits suicide.

Well you see, TRIFORCE89, it's the mentality of copyright protection, in my view.
I'm too cynical to believe a 35 year sentence was based on damages and trespass alone.
 
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Cassino said:
Well you see, TRIFORCE89, it's the mentality of copyright protection, in my view.
I'm too cynical to believe a 35 year sentence was based on damages and trespass alone.
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Perhaps not (35 years is outrageous in either event, anyway). And 35 years would have been the maximum sentence, doesn't mean that's what he going to receive.

Prosecutors told his attorney a few days before he committed suicide that realistically he was only looking at six months. Would have been good if someone actually told him that. Perhaps he wouldn't have taken his life.
 
In addition to what I said earlier, there's been one constant thought going through my mind every time I hear about this: "martyr." They turned him into one, now they get to reap the consequences.
 
TRIFORCE89 said:
Perhaps not (35 years is outrageous in either event, anyway). And 35 years would have been the maximum sentence, doesn't mean that's what he going to receive.

Prosecutors told his attorney a few days before he committed suicide that realistically he was only looking at six months. Would have been good if someone actually told him that. Perhaps he wouldn't have taken his life.
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Interesting.

It still worries me that even the maximum can be over a year or two in any case, though I concede this would be a matter for another thread if I were to continue going on about it.



twocows said:
In addition to what I said earlier, there's been one constant thought going through my mind every time I hear about this: "martyr." They turned him into one, now they get to reap the consequences.
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I'm not sure I follow your wording. Who's reaping the consequences and what are they?
 
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I'm not sure I follow your wording. Who's reaping the consequences and what are they?
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The consequences are widespread public outrage against their office.
 
twocows said:
The consequences are widespread public outrage against their office.
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The rest of the world may care at least to a certain extent, but a vast majority in America don't even know, and a good number of those who do don't even care.

The media is a handy little tool when it comes to telling the people only what you want them to hear, isn't it? Add to that the false belief that anything and everything on the internet is untrustworthy and shouldn't be taken into consideration.
 
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The rest of the world may care at least to a certain extent, but a vast majority in America don't even know, and a good number of those who do don't even care.
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That's funny, because pretty much everyone I know has spoken out against this. This was pretty widely reported, I don't know what you're getting at.
 
twocows said:
That's funny, because pretty much everyone I know has spoken out against this. This was pretty widely reported, I don't know what you're getting at.
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I don't know the same people you do, and the people I do know (family, friends from school) don't ever hear about this kind of stuff. And even if it was on the local news, I don't think most people would be phased by this as much as the people here are. "Oh, someone killed themselves in order to not face jailtime? Heard that before."

People don't question what goes on, unless it's something to do with patriotism, politics, or children. Everything else in America is in one ear and out the other essentially.
 
twocows said:
That's funny, because pretty much everyone I know has spoken out against this. This was pretty widely reported, I don't know what you're getting at.
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The only place I've come across it, aside from more technology-inclined websites, is CNN. And their angle was "Well, he was a prodigy and that's a shame. But... he did still steal and that's the rule." Not really outrage
 
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