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given that, as one person points out, piracy is fought in civil court not criminal court, ... and... criminal court seeks to restore money from damages.... how do their legal cases ever make any ground?
I mean,... I can imagine them having some success suing uploaders and web-site operators, but... I've heard stories of them going after downloaders and file copiers. Don't they have to show damages somehow? If I have $40,000 worth of music on my ipod, and I've never had $40,000 in the bank, doesn't that prove that I haven't cost them $40,000 in revenue? If the money doesn't exist then I obviously never would have given it to them. Maybe they lost $200 in revenue, what I would have actually been willing to spend on music if I'd been a paying customer. If I haven't cost them $40,000 in revenue then how can they go about suing me at astronomical rates?
Surely there must be criminal penalties for piracy too, aren't there?
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