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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
The concept of awarding punitive damages in addition to actual damages in order to actually discourage harmful action is nothing new to the case of CI.
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This is a key point of the discussion, I think. Ebook pirates are like speeders--they figure "everyone else is doing it, and the system is slack, so no one will catch me." When they do get caught, they protest because none of the other pirates are getting punished. No one expects to be that one in a million file-sharer who actually gets fingered and brought to court, so they do what they want.
Unless a scofflaw is likely to get caught, and punishment likely to be issued, the entire discussion is pointless.