Colombian Student Faces Prison Charges for Sharing an Academic Article Online

This is both sad and scary.  I find it hard to believe the student is being sued by the author as opposed to the publisher as is indicated in the news story.  Also a 4 to 8 year prison sentence seems way out of line.

Maybe something like this will force changes in copyright law to make it more reasonable.

Joe Wible, Hopkins Marine Station

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/colombian-student-faces-prison-charges-sharing-academic-article-online

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