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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
If you had downloaded it there would be other evidence. Traces of a file on a computer, evidence of interest in the file (looking at it on retail sites, for example), logs of Google searches, internet history, common usernames/email addresses/passwords on pirate sites, all sorts of things like that. That is the sort of evidence that would be required to convince a court/jury.
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It strikes me that seizure of computer equipment and its subsequent forensic analysis is way over the top for a simple case of casual copyright infringement, and is going to result in massive costs for the person being prosecuted if they lose the case.
Isn't there good reason to put in place a low-cost, low-penalty system to deal with such offences, along the lines of fixed-penalties for minor traffic offences? We ARE only talking about very minor offences here, by and large.