{"id":90131,"date":"2016-04-27T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=90131"},"modified":"2016-04-27T08:05:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T06:05:12","slug":"uk-pirates-to-get-crazy-prison-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/90131-uk-pirates-to-get-crazy-prison-sentences","title":{"rendered":"UK pirates to get crazy prison sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The maximum prison sentence for online pirates in the UK is set to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.businessinsider.com\/uk-government-plans-10-year-jail-sentences-for-online-pirates-consultation-copyright-infringement-2016-4\" target=\"_blank\">quintuple <\/a><\/strong>in the coming year.<\/p>\n<p>The previous maximum sentence of two years has been extended to ten, despite strong opposition from Britain&#8217;s Intellectual Property Office.<\/p>\n<p>The Intellectual Property Office <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/changes-to-penalties-for-online-copyright-infringement\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> <\/strong>the results of a consultation launched last year, which looked at increasing the possible penalties facing people who engage in online copyright infringement. The vast majority of respondents, around 98%, opposed an increase.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Government believes that online offences should be treated no less seriously than their physical counterparts,&#8221; the official response to the consultation says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Harmonising these will provide a deterrent effect to criminals and, where criminality continues, provide for tangible punitive action.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>South Africa has also recently seen an <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/158357-massive-dvd-piracy-bust-in-south-africa-pictures.html\" target=\"_blank\">increase <\/a><\/strong>of piracy-related arrests, and stricter international laws mean we could see similarly strict sentences in South Africa.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The biggest movie releases this week\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/89727-the-biggest-movie-releases-this-week-2.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The biggest movie releases this week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Acer reveals insane Predator PC, gaming laptop and monitor\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/90097-acer-reveals-insane-predator-gaming-laptop-pc-and-monitor.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Acer reveals insane Predator PC, gaming laptop and monitor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Corsair unveils new ultra-fast mechanical keyboards\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/90087-corsair-unveils-new-ultra-fast-mechanical-keyboards.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Corsair unveils new ultra-fast mechanical keyboards<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite strong opposition the maximum prison sentence for online pirates in the UK is set to quintuple in the coming year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":27393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[1807,101,18201,15149],"class_list":["post-90131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-online","tag-piracy","tag-prison","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90223,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90131\/revisions\/90223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}