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Old 05-19-2012, 03:34 PM   #122
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Originally Posted by Jaden View Post
But where's the relation? Using public transport without paying is quite similar - risk of being caught is about the same. But they will charge you 40 Euro (even if the ticket would have been 2 Euro) and if you are caught about 3 times in one year, you will be taken to court.

Of course you will have to be fined more than the cost of one song. But not several thousand times the cost of that song.

If you download a chart sampler and get fined 2000 Euro for each of the 18 songs, that might ruin you. And I guess in many cases, if they really wanted to deter people from piracy, making them doing social work for about 20 hours for each of the 18 songs would teach people and would help society. But of course that would not help the music industry in the short run, but maybe in the long run. (Then again, maybe not...)
Yeah, they usually settle for a lot less than 20K euros per song...they may settle for 2000 in total with you. But here's the thing...it may have actually cost them $500K to make that album...so if you steal the album they charge the cost of the whole thing you stole....in a sense.

The harder it is to enforce some law the higher the fine needs to be to deter someone....economically speaking....other wise no one would obey the law.
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