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   From: znu@fake.invalid   
      
   In article ,   
    chrisv  wrote:   
      
   > ZnU wrote:   
   >   
   > >downloading a $0.99 song makes you subject to $150K in civil penalties?   
   >   
   > Yeah, sure it does.   
   >   
   > >It's just not sane.   
   >   
   > It doesn't happen.   
      
   Low enforcement/high penalty laws are, as a general rule, useless as a   
   deterrent, meaning that their only function is to occasionally ruin   
   people's lives for no useful purpose in the rare instance when they are   
   enforced. US drug laws have basically the same problem. It's not a good   
   situation.   
      
   --   
   "The game of professional investment is intolerably boring and over-exacting to   
   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   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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