Dagmar
Defender of the Bunnies of Skyrim
That's not even punishment. That's simply making them retroactively comply with the law which gives zero disincentive to refrain from continuing to engage in piracy. It's toothless and therefore worthless.What I think would be a fitting punishment would be that the person that downloaded would need to pay ALL the original cost of the things he downloaded not freaking jail. Thats just absurd.
All the talk about jailtime being absurd for piracy is equally absurd because law enforcement agencies don't criminally prosecute casual downloaders. The only criminal prosecutions ever pursued are against large scale piracy operators like those that create file hosting sites which facilitate millions of illegal downloads, and even for those prosecutions the convicted usually end up serving probation. Prosecutions against casual downloaders are civil prosecutions not criminal prosecutions, and they are rarely pursued by government agencies.