Copyright violations or censorship?

[liowkc]

5 South Korean internet conpany chiefs have been arrested for violating copyright laws. The presidents of Now.com and 4 others were charged with illegally spreading movie files online, but Now.com said that the aim of the arrest was not about copyright violation rather than censorship - suppressing online anti-government campaigns.

[Llamalord]

suppressing online anti-government campaigns.

If you done that over here they would either treat you as a activist or terrorist, kinda sad that these things happen by evil people in parties

[hwang]

So, What's the difference between both of them anyway? It's illegal from the law enforcement standpoint and view. Maybe one with lighter sentence compared to the another.

[Llamalord]

Ones concidered a "good cause" and the other is "bad" when they are in a sense the same thing. (Please note I know alot of people will complain about that comment I have just made, but look at it, both of them are fighting for what THEY believe in and both use fear to get their point across).

(Kinda like how hippies and goths are almost the same apart from different sorts of music and depressing levels of hippy anger me)

[liowkc]

I posted this because I feel that many governments are censoring political speech but using copyright violations as an excuse for prosecution. In my view, the fair use doctrine of copyright laws should apply for political discourse.