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Old 07-04-2012, 11:05 AM   #216
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Originally Posted by murraypaul View Post
You haven't heard about people being sued for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for sharing MP3 files? Where have you been?
In the Megaupload case? Do you have links to those stories?

I haven't seen *any* lawsuits actually go to court for filesharing through upload-file services, rather than P2P sharing. I've seen plenty of demands for settlements, often thrown at people who don't have the resources to fight them; all that proves is "the corporation filing the claim has a team of lawyers and the average college student doesn't." If a corporation went after college students for wearing baseball-caps backwards as a trademark violation (because it's "defamatory," perhaps), those students would also have no choice but to settle or go bankrupt trying to fight the charges.

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The companies have largely shifted away from such tactics because they were very bad PR.
When the majority of the public thinks enforcing the law is a bad idea, it's time to change the law. If public sympathy overwhemingly goes to the accused, over and over, the prosecutions may not be in the public interest.
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