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Originally Posted by avantman42
If I get a parking ticket, or a speeding ticket, I pay, and my wife and kids don't suffer for my crime.
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One ticket, and the effect on our joint checking account is small. But keep it up, and it's a race between insurance becoming unaffordable and the family car being booted.
In the long run, if there is no sanction against book piracy, paying for books will be become suckers territory, or, at best, an act of charity. In rare situations, a business model based on alms can work. Very rare.
With any punishment, the whole family suffers for the sins of one member. The French sanction for piracy isn't different in this respect from any other sanction, civil or criminal.
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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Losing your internet connection is a form of imprisonment.
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I don't know about you, but if my child was in jail, I'd feel I was in jail.
If my internet connection dies, I'm not in jail. I'm in the library. I've never been in jail, but I'm sure I like the library better.
Vive la France (and don't be too sure that culture minister will have her way)