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Originally Posted by markbot
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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So if you use public transport once without paying you should be fined the cost of the bus? What about the cost of the street? Wage of the bus driver?
Not that I'm saying either is okay, but if you download a song, you don't "steal" the song. They still have it afterwards and they can still sell copies to other people. You illegally obtain a copy and the "right" to listen to it - but not the song itself (and the rights to receive royalties for it). So charging the cost of the production of the album sounds kind of ridiculous to me.
I can understand why they do it, but I'm quite sure that higher and higher fines will not work, as it does not work to harass paying customers by having them sit through spots they can't skip... Of course if people can pay them, it will get them some money, so if that is what they intend... But if they intend to stop people from downloading stuff illegally, this is not the best course...