The Penalty for Copying a DVD

From: Robert Karl Skoglund
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From: Robert Karl Skoglund

Humbleoats_small Today one can serve three years in prison for killing a man, but five years for copying a plastic disk containing a Spiderman movie.

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Today one can serve three years in prison for killing a man, but five years for copying a plastic disk containing a Spiderman movie.

Transcript

My wife Marsha is a charter member and fanatical supporter of our local video rental store. The other night Marsha and I were looking at a DVD movie on one of those little computer disks. And I read on the screen that if you copy the movie on this DVD computer disk the FBI will batter down the doors to your home, you will be fined $250,000 and you will go to jail for five years. A good friend of mine got in a drunken brawl and blew a man away. Bam. He only served three years for killing a man but I would have to serve five if I copied a movie. Years from now, people will think of our era as that transitional period when a man?s life was no longer worth as much as a plastic disk containing a Spiderman movie.
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