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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
Three juries *in a row* imposed huge fines on Jammie Thomas. That's at least some evidence that "regular" people don't have any sympathy for file sharing.
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It's a sure sign that, whatever they did or did not understand, the juries treated filesharing as essentially equal to theft. The matter was probably broken down to its simplest context, and treated as such.
A lot of the existing copyright rules, and a lot of the pro- and anti-copyright discussion, manage to cloud the essential issue, namely, the right of a creator to protect their creation to a reasonable extent, and the penalty against violating that right. That's all it's about... and the laws simply need to be upgraded to take digital files into account, and give the courts clear direction in examining evidence and bringing verdicts.