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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's the crux of the issue, isn't it? It seems to boil down to a choice of two options: making people responsible for the use of the equipment they own, or making it effectively impossible to prosecute any pirate who has two brain-cells to rub together. I don't believe anyone is going to do a full forensic examination of a computer that someone thinks may have been used to illegally download a $10 movie onto; it wouldn't be a feasible use of resources for anyone. So we let the pirates get away with it.
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There's a saying in law enforcement: We only catch the dumb ones. If you want to get away with something on a computer (or anywhere else, for that matter), and you're really smart and really careful, you're going to get away with it.