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Originally Posted by Barcey
It frustrates me because what was claimed here is real piracy that matters. (Copyright violation for the intent of profit without compensating the rights holders). I suspect they agreed to settle so it can quietly go away and they can jointly complain about illegal downloads.
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Although comparing a settlement in Canada to a judgement in the US is comparing apples to oranges, you are completely correct. The truth is that the people the music industry has sued in most if not all cases made no money from their infringement but the infringement by the music industry was for profit. Regardless of where you stand on getting content from the "dark net", I would think that this would be considered an order of magnitude worse. Especially since this is a case where you can definitively say that each copy went to someone that was willing to pay for it given the option. I am somewhat surprised that this did not come up sooner in this thread.