theinquier is one of the "news" sites which likes to put things to the extreeme, and most thing they write should be taken with more then just a grain of salt and not to literally.
It is as fable says, simply because the the (US) law states that you can get up to 10 years for this and 7 years for that is not the same as you will get 10 years if you get busted for doing this and 7 for that.
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if you copy Craig David's CD you get ten years, but if you punch him in the face and pummel him into a seven day coma you will only get six.
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is just plainly wrong.
If you copy a CD and get caught for it, you'll recive a fine. Show me just one case where the penalty frame have been used fully for one copied CD.
If you sell 100.000 copies of the CD, then you might risk jail. People have been caught who have sold copies for a market value of hundreds of millions - and without even investigating - I'd doubt they got 10years of jail, and if they did - then I actually see no fault in it.
Softwarepiracy is indeed a huge issue, and all complications and hindsight reasoning aside then there is no doubt that illegally copied products counts for many many many million dollars each year.
The "problem" with piracy however is manyfold and many reasons exists for why ordinary people do it and see it as more "okay" then much other lawbreaking, but nevertheless it is a huge industry and I see absolutly no fault in trying to crack down on the organised piracy. I've gotten in to this in past discussions, and see no reason to do so again in this thread.
But I strongly doubt you'll (at the moment) see anybody convicted to 10 years of jail for copying a Craig David CD, wereas you are more likely to see somebody getting 6 years for pummeling him into a coma.