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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
If you leave your keys in your car, and somebody borrows it and kills someone, are you still guilty of murder? Of manslaughter? Should the police arrest & prosecute you, and ignore trying to find who did the crime, because they're certain it was done with your car, and since it was registered to you, you're responsible for it's use?
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If you are caught speeding by a speed camera, that's exactly what happens - the registered owner of the vehicle will be prosecuted unless THEY can show that someone else was driving the vehicle at the time. I see no reason that This principle could not be equally applied to downloading.