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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.
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Indeed. And a teenager who downloads a couple thousand songs should have to pay the entire GDP of the United States.
Escalating punishments, you know... Makes as much sense as charging the production cost of the albums the putative teenager "stole," and the 8th amendment be damned!