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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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 24 points 5 hours ago

governments be like

affordable housing and no austerity? 🥱

arresting people for downloading the minecraft movie? 💯

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 6 hours ago

We really need internet beyond ISPs.

[–] albert180@piefed.social 23 points 7 hours ago

We should stop caring about US IP that much, since Trump is ignoring the vast service trade balance surplus the US has, and only focuses on real goods

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 16 points 7 hours ago

Does Greece not have statutes of limitations?

[–] pinkapple@lemmy.ml 13 points 7 hours ago

The weird thing here is the implication of data collection for a decade, which I really don't think is covered by any law.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 104 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Glad to know Greece is focusing on the important things. The rest of their country is doing swimmingly 👌

[–] warm@kbin.earth 17 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Greece is a very corrupt country.

[+] pinkapple@lemmy.ml -10 points 7 hours ago (2 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.

[–] owiseedoubleyou@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The fact that the government prioritizes this over all the other problems that plague your average Greek like poverty, horribly maintained or downright unsafe public infrastructure, public health and education being left in ruins forcing people to seek for private counterparts, corruption in every part of the government including the justice system all while oligarchs are experiencing record profits.

[–] pinkapple@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Oh you mean capitalist inequality magnified by enforced EU neoliberal policies? Damn, if only some people wouldn't be "corrupt" then capitalism in the periphery would work like clockwork. Totally the fault of some people not doing it right, nothing at all to do with enforced austerity. ND enforcing IP laws along with everything else that the EU commands is corruption yes.

[–] owiseedoubleyou@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 hours ago

It's not just the EU that's responsible for all of this. For instance, cronyism and nepotism are deeply rooted in greek society ever since Ottoman rule. In the public sector especially, people can get jobs without any soft of merit whatsoever and even avoid persecution of any kind due to party affiliation or having friends and family members working in the public sector as well.

[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 hours ago (1 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 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 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 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 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".

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 33 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Next time just shoot an movie industry exec, the sentence will be the same. /s (mandatory: don't actually shoot anyone please)

[–] xzot746@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 hours ago

Yeah 5 yrs for something that in no way harmed anyone, or took anything from anyone. Are these execs and studios losing money (I mean beyond the ways they set up to make them always lose money so no decent bonuses are paid).

Meanwhile some folks just getting by who wouldn't been able to afford (maybe maybe not) to go see it or buy it (again and again because we changed 1 frame and called it the director's cut, George), they get this crazy sentence.

If you're going to rip people off then you might as well go all the way as there doesn't seem to be any logic to sentences.

Guaranteed that someone in office got paid to make this happen, but that is stating the obvious because the majority of politicians are bought and paid for by business and somehow that is alright.

And I don't agree with shooting the studio execs. You can be way more effective shooting the ones bribing (aka lobbying) and the ones being lobbied (the many blood sucking parasites).

You always hear that violence isn't the answer, well look around because the people saying that don't seem to have an issue with it, they just don't want it to them, but no problem for them to do it to you.

The US is a great example of this, 2nd amendment blah blah blah, the ones who were the loudest have STFU because they only wanted those rights for them, and they now have them and the get to go cosplay CounterStrike for real, lie and conceal their identity (which should be so frigging illegal) and drag you off somewhere and you hope it's only to some private prison but there will be many that just end up disappeared.

What a time to be alive, your role (since we've gotten rid of Kings) is to be a serf to checks notes new Kings called Corporations, cause Bezos needs that fucking boat and wedding in Venice and fuck you you will do as told.

All the dystopian movies are being used as a play book and the citizens just seems to think it will end when the movie does.