UK Police: download a file, go to jail for 10 years and pay an "unlimited" fine

Re:UK Police: download a file, go to jail for 10 years and p... by Joakal on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @09:13PM (#3597072)

There is still democracy. Join the pirate party. You'll get materials, information, etc, to present to other people.

If there's enough mass of people realising that the government and copyright cartels are bullshitting and using pirates as a bogeyman for economic problems, then the people will vote them out.

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Re:UK Police: download a file, go to jail for 10 years and p... by iRobot on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @10:07PM (#3597184)

Its amazing, how many people you talk to who thinks all this is BS and the system is totally screwed, however it always translates to fuck-all votes at the polls.

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Re:UK Police: download a file, go to jail for 10 years and p... by publicus on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @10:40PM (#3597268)

You don't get real choices at the polls. We need to get rid of the winner take all system and replace it with a percentage based system.

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Re:UK Police: download a file, go to jail for 10 years and p... by Joakal on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @10:57PM (#3597315)

UK has instant runoff voting for Upper House: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

UK rejected alternative voting in 2011 for Lower House: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vot...

So the winner take all would remain for a while.

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Re:UK Police: download a file, go to jail for 10 years and p... by Leynos on Thursday February 16, 2012 @08:06AM (#3598414)

For clarity: The upper house (the House of Lords) is appointed, rather than elected. The instant runoff voting was used to select which hereditory peers would be allowed to remain sitting in the house after the number of sitting hereditory peers was reduced to 90 in 1999, with the electorate being other members of the house.

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