Life imprisonment for attempted piracy, anyone? (Score 3, Interesting)

"If keys can be compromised before HD DVDs bearing those keys are even released into the wild, one has to question the viability of the entire key revocation model.'" DRM won't be called into question. The real question to those with power and their minions is: what's the best punishment for offenders? Is it life imprisonment, the "solution" for such things as hacking the main page of a corporate website or committing "attempted piracy"?