Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Small fines similiar to what you would get for speeding offences would make the most sense. But there would be no logical reason to have them go down on someone's public record, because listening to an mp3 without permission from the copyright holder wouldn't pose a risk to the general public. Having such a non-crime (in the eyes of the majority of the population) affect the rest of someone's life would put it back into the territory of the punishment being wildly out of proportion to the crime.
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