Authorities in Greece are making good on their promise to crack down and deter use of pirate sites and services. Arrests during a significant action to disrupt pirate IPTV last month are now followed by news of an immediate five-year prison sentence and a €10,000 fine. The 59-year-old defendant was reportedly found guilty of running a private torrent site; P2Planet.net. Curiously, the site announced its closure over a decade ago, making the offenses even older than that.

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[+] pinkapple@lemmy.ml -16 points 1 day ago (9 children)

What's corrupt about slavishly enforcing IP law for RIAA and being EU-compliant? That's the exact opposite of corruption but yeah bring back chauvinist westeuro "Greeks are lazy and don't pay their taxes" propaganda from 2010 like it's relevant to anything.

[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

What’s corrupt about slavishly enforcing IP law for RIAA

You really typed that without even an ounce of self-awareness?

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works -2 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Enforcing the law is generally not something people refer to as corruption.

[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Just because a law exists, doesn't make it good. Even getting good laws made these days in the first place often requires lobbying, under-the-table deals and such.

Or just look at ICE. Tell me exactly how are they not corrupt.

[–] pinkapple@lemmy.ml 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

You really wrote that without an ounce of understanding what "corruption" means. Not enforcing EU directives would be called corruption by the EU goons, member states are fined when they disobey and its primarily the RIAA based in the US that makes all the fuss about DRM and IP so who are you wagging the finger to? It's American financial interests being enforced but a country is supposedly corrupt for not trying to be some kind of IP law rogue? Inside the EU? The current Greek government is rabidly pro-west, pro-EU and pro-NATO so if being the most obedient to the overlords is corrupt then what is the uncorrupt alternative here exactly?

There isn't one. It's just the usual yuropian chauvinist garbage about every other place that isn't western Europe being inherently inferior. All of southern Europe is "corrupt" instead of "the EU is basically the German Union" just like "Africans are having too many kids" instead of "neo-colonialism is real".

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