Authorities in Greece are making good on their promise to crack down and deter use of pirate sites and services. Arrests during a significant action to disrupt pirate IPTV last month are now followed by news of an immediate five-year prison sentence and a €10,000 fine. The 59-year-old defendant was reportedly found guilty of running a private torrent site; P2Planet.net. Curiously, the site announced its closure over a decade ago, making the offenses even older than that.

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[–] owiseedoubleyou@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The fact that the government prioritizes this over all the other problems that plague your average Greek like poverty, horribly maintained or downright unsafe public infrastructure, public health and education being left in ruins forcing people to seek for private counterparts, corruption in every part of the government including the justice system all while oligarchs are experiencing record profits.

[–] pinkapple@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Oh you mean capitalist inequality magnified by enforced EU neoliberal policies? Damn, if only some people wouldn't be "corrupt" then capitalism in the periphery would work like clockwork. Totally the fault of some people not doing it right, nothing at all to do with enforced austerity. ND enforcing IP laws along with everything else that the EU commands is corruption yes.

[–] owiseedoubleyou@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's not just the EU that's responsible for all of this. For instance, cronyism and nepotism are deeply rooted in greek society ever since Ottoman rule. In the public sector especially, people can get jobs without any soft of merit whatsoever and even avoid persecution of any kind due to party affiliation or having friends and family members working in the public sector as well.

[–] Chakravanti@monero.town 2 points 1 week ago

That jargon is literally nothing but slang for taking any and all family tradition as a pretend that your fraudulent act was anything but trickery. This, to move people who choose not to swallow a decietful pill that carried literal false flags. Flags stripped of all value for their product of death that suffocates all water consumption.

Says on every of that not-paper. Doesn't hestate in millenia.

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