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   From: rotten@pple.com   
      
   "ZnU"  wrote in message   
   news:znu-5ECAD7.12294201072010@Port80.Individual.NET...   
   > 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.   
      
   It figures you want legalized drugs.   
      
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