During an internal audit of South Australia's police department, hundreds of officers were found to be breaking federal piracy/copyright laws.
Piracy is punishable by up to $60,500 per infringement and up to five years in prison. According to news source The Advertiser, no charges will be filed as there were too many police personnel involved.
The computers were police owned computers, so I assume [?] this was done on work time.
So - if I am correct - the police who are supposed to be working to uphold the law and catch criminals, instead used work hours and police computers to break the law, and since there are so many doing it they will not be charged.
One only hopes the Australian police do not any time soon have the unmitigated gall to attempt to arrest or prosecute someone for copyright infringement.....as that would be hypocrisy defined. Link
