10 years in prison for illegal streaming? It’s in the Covid-19 relief bill
(www.mercurynews.com)
Comments (10)
sorted by:
Didn't they slide this same garbage hidden in some unrelated bill a couple of years ago?
Wouldn't surprise me. Globohomo wants getting a free movie to be comparable to 3rd degree murder.
As I recall something almost identical was proposed for the first relief bill.
What I don't understand is how that's possible, given that appropriations bills are, to my knowledge, expressly authorized to allocate money and not create, for instance, new criminalized offenses. But I've only worked for a state legislature and not the federal. Maybe it's different.
Prisoner 1: What are you in for?
Prisoner 2: Rape, murder, arson, rape... You?
Prisoner 1: I let someone watch an episode of the Saved By The Bell remake from my Plex server
Jazz music stops
Prisoner 1 scoots far away down the bench.
If the penalty for "theft" becomes greater than the penalty for murder, I feel as if the end result becomes obvious and predictable, and that end result isn't a happy peaceful utopia. But then again, I'm just some argumentative troll on the internet, what do I know?
*The penalty for imaginary theft.
Yeah, hence the scarequotes.
also I reposted this in kia2 on ruqqus
https://ruqqus.com/+kotakuinaction2/post/8rbm/10-years-in-prison-for-illegal