09-15-2012, 02:20 PM | #31 |
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Not really the same thing, but lots of people were prosecuted in the UK for swapping bootleg videos in the post when horror films were made illegal. Like with the internet, they scoured classified adverts in magazines looking for them.
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09-15-2012, 02:34 PM | #32 | |
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I don't see a justice issue with giving the guy a small fine after three warnings when his home computer was used by his wife. But I really don't understand the $11 billion dollars. At all. That's a *huge* amount of money and I really can't understand what they have found to spend it on. The *entire tax revenue* of my state (population 6 million) for one year is about $13 billion. |
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09-15-2012, 03:11 PM | #33 |
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Regardless to whether it was his wife or ex wife, she should have been the one punished not him.
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I know that English speakers are adopting eBooks more quickly than French speakers, so book statistics probably are not yet available. My evidence-free suggestion is that readers are, on average, more risk adverse than the music and video crowd, in part because of being older. A Hadopi type of law should work better with them. I would have chosen a lower amount, but this seems fair to me. Quote:
As for $600,000, I don't know where this amount comes from, and the RIAA lawsuits stopped several years ago. |
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