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Originally Posted by HarryT
But it's still punishing the individual for the actions of the government. How would you like it if a foreign country took money from you personally because of some action of your government?
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This is true, of course. I think the idea is that these individuals will put more pressure on the US government to reach an agreement with Antigua.
Antigua doesn't really want to allow free downloads; that's of no benefit to them at all. What they want is some concession worth $21 million to them; threatening with copyrights is just leverage.