I thought this might be fiction because the amount of time for pirating cable seemed crazy.. However [1] there are indeed up to 6 month penalties for stealing cable. That's just ludicrous. How could copyright theft ever be anything other than a civil action? Jail time for stealing cable, that's just insane. Nobody gets hurt from stolen cable.
We really need to look long and hard at what we allow jail time for. Jail time in service of big media corporations seems just insane.
We really need to look long and hard at what we allow jail time for. Jail time in service of big media corporations seems just insane.
[1] https://www.tec.com/legal/cable-theft-information