Heavy Penalty?

Ok early post since i am waiting for support and have nothing much to do. Anyway i was reading some tech news over at yahoo and i just found out that apparently my country has very very strict penalties on pirated movies...compared to the seven years jail penalty in some other country. I definitely got to say that here there you can find an abundant amount of pirated movies here, but what i didn't know were the strict penalties. Yeah i'll admit that i don't think i would be able to live with those penalties in the event that i were to get them (not like i will since i don't pirate movies anyway), but if it really were as strict why would i still be seeing so many pirated dvd peddlers around?

So whats so strict about the penalties found over here? Well apparently from the news article the penalty is life imprisonment or death....i think i just stopped dead in my tracks reading that, not so much as because i was scared or anything but more because i wasn't aware that there was such a heavy penalty in the first place. So i turned over to my colleague and showed him the article and of course he was just as surprise as i was. Then again its not like i really know if that was true or not nor that i even care if it were true or not....apparently its also same to our fellow neighbors down south. But regardless of the articles validity it definitely got me intrigued so i think i'll look it up later when i have more time. For those of you who are interested in reading it i'll leave you the link.