Large-scale online pirates to face up to 10 years’ jail under ministers’ proposals
by Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent from on (#ENTC)
Consultation calls for maximum sentence to be vastly increased so penalties for online offences tally with those for copyright infringement of physical goods
Commercial infringement of copyright online should in future be punishable by up to 10 years in prison, ministers are proposing.
A consultation launched by the Intellectual Property Office and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is calling for the present maximum sentence of two years to be significantly increased.
