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Originally Posted by Qi__
She downloaded 30 tracks, say .99 cents per track. It's a first time, so it's either a warning or like a $60 fine.
Why is downloading 350x worse than shoplifting?
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That's a common analogy, but a really bad one. This is about uploading, not downloading. The higher penalty is for distributing copies to lots of other people, not just the one copy that they downloaded.
Copyright infringement is primarily about uploading, which many people do not seem to understand.
It's not equivalent to shoplifting, it's equivalent to running your own black market store and selling things that you don't own.