Penalties for online hackers

Computer confiscation, fine, sealing off the Internet - such penalties for online pirates the association of music, movies and software creators and producers demanded from the Ministry of Culture.

There is more and more broadband technologies and new technologies of file-sharing. Hackers have unlimited possibilities, they even distribute illegally books and pictures - admitted Jan Baldyga from the Anti-Hacker Coalition (Koalicja Antypiracka) and Audio and Video Association of Manufacturers (Związek Producentów Audio Video - ZPAV).

Association - Business Software Alliance indicates that Poland is on shameful fourth place among EU countries (Greece, Romania and Bulgaria), when it comes to Internet piracy.
APF wants to punish anyone who illegally download movies or music from the Internet, the same as it is with punishment for thiefs and stealing. But it should not a be a prison but, for example, a financial fine or cutting off from the Internet and computer.