jailable
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- gaolable (rare)
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jailable (not comparable)
- (of an offence) For which one may be jailed.
- 2020 September 7, Cory Doctorow, “IP”, in Locus Magazine[1]:
- Copyright laws – that is, “IP laws” – ban tampering with DRM, making it a serious, jailable felony to provide others with tools to bypass DRM. From Section 1201 of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act to Canada’s Bill C-32 to Article 6 of the EU Copyright Directive, countries around the world have imposed indiscriminate bans on breaking DRM.