Theft is theft. You should be able to kill someone to protect your property, so jailing them should be the least of the thief’s worries.
It would be a welcome change when/if the gubmint stands to protect property rights instead of infringing in the property owners’ rights.
Is there a government office established to lock up those suspected of breaking into your home?
Even the local governments don’t do it.
Even when they have evidence of who did the break in.
File the paperwork and wait and wait and oh yeah, hope your insurance is willing to give you a payout to recoup your expenses.
Copyright enforcement for Big Media should not be a role of Homeland Security. Let Hollywood foot the bill for their own detectives to bring the cases to court.
And how much should ABC-Disney (or NBC or whoever) pay to a private videomaker when he or she posts a home movie ‘news’ clip to youtube? Right now, they just take it without compensation.
And plenty of big companies have been caught (witout fair recompense or punative damages) stealing private photos from facebook, flickr, twitter, etc. and selling them to licensed photo syndicates.
It’s a two way street this copyright violation. The billion dollar crooks should be paying far deeper fines. Their legal team knows better and they have greater broadcast than any fileshare system.
“Theft is theft. You should be able to kill someone to protect your property, so jailing them should be the least of the thief’s worries.
It would be a welcome change when/if the gubmint stands to protect property rights instead of infringing in the property owners’ rights.”
This is why I’m very happy I never had to face a foreign corporation (like Keystone XL) or a connected developer (like in Kelo v New London CT) coming to take my property via eminent domain for their personal profits. I put private property rights above the right of corporations.