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Old 05-08-2012, 05:02 AM   #305
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg View Post
So do you see The Pirate Bay to be an ideal location for the police to investigate illegal downloaders? What would be their investigative tools? Get subpoenas to trace back IP addresses, perhaps? Then get individual court orders to go into people's houses, confiscate their computers, and make a forensic examination of their hard drives?

I would say no to the above, because it is too expensive.
As people keep pointing out, we shouldn't allow crime to go on just because it is expensive to police it. They don't seem to mind spending money to catch people downloading child porn, even though downloading an mp3 instead will result in a much higher fine.

Saving money should never be used as an excuse to do away with the presumption of innocense until proven guilty.
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