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Originally Posted by HarryT
While I agree with you that this is truly draconian, I must respectfully disagree with you that "a slap on the wrist" is sufficient. A fine needs to be large enough to be a serious disincentive to commit the offence in the first place. My local subway system fines you 50x the price of a ticket if you're caught travelling without one, and that seems to me to be of the right order of magnitude to discourage it - say a $500 for downloading an item with a $10 retail value.
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that's fair enough
but people downloading torrents with thousands of such cheaply priced items will be in deep problems
worst yet: they most likely don't even watch/listen/read all that stuff. They just NEED to fill up the whole HD.