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   From: znu@fake.invalid   
      
   In article ,   
    chrisv  wrote:   
      
   > Lyrik wrote:   
   >   
   > >On 30 Jun., 14:56, chrisv  wrote:   
   > >> Lyrik wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> Err... get some common sense, please.  There are no such "Draconian"   
   > >> penalties for minor offences such as "pirating" a movie.  To get   
   > >> prison time, you'd have to be egregiously copying and selling someone   
   > >> else's work on a large scale.   
   > >,,,,,,,,,,,,   
   > >Well every time I play a DVD movie it threatens me with FBI and   
   > >penalties and jail! But that is common sense? It is not the actual   
   > >penalties comming out of those draconian statements, it is the law   
   > >itself and the threats that are draconian!   
   >   
   > Whatever.  The silly "up to" warnings do not apply to some fool   
   > pirating a movie.  Grow up.   
      
   The problem is that the record industry is using those "up to" numbers   
   to engage in what amounts to legal extortion. "We think you've been   
   pirating our stuff. Don't worry about whether we can actually prove it.   
   Just pay us $3000 immediately, or we'll sue you for $750,000".   
      
   Evading a $2.25 fare on the NYC subway gets you a $100 ticket, but   
   downloading a $0.99 song makes you subject to $150K in civil penalties?   
   It's just not sane. And they're lobbying to get individuals put in   
   *jail* for copyright infringement.   
      
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   anyone who is entirely exempt from the gambling instinct; whilst he who has it   
   must pay to this propensity the appropriate toll." -- John Maynard Keynes   
      
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