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Originally Posted by murraypaul
You haven't heard about people being sued for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for sharing MP3 files? Where have you been?
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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.
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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.