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Originally Posted by Catlady
What lesson does the pirate and other potential pirates really get here? Not why uploading copyrighted material is wrong, but only that they should keep their mouth shut when they do it.
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For starters.
If they're even vaguely reasonable people they might consider that there are many ways to identify uploaders and that name and shame is quick and cheap.
An infringed-upon author could simply post a notice saying: "We tracked an ilegal upload on such and such a date to such and such IP that the service provider said was in use at such and such address. The residents have been notified."
They might even append the name of all the residents at that address.
Nothing but verifiable facts.
On the employment question: if the issue shows up on a Google search for a prospective employee, some companies would surely shrug it off.
But a whole lot of them would simply move on to the next qualified employee that doesn't have questionable ethics/morals. Some employers have higher standards than merely what is legal, which is simply the *lowest* standard of behavior that a society will tolerate. Standards for ethics, morals, common sense, and, yes, intelligence. The guy fails all of the above.
So while the guy isn't getting lynched or even sued to within an inch of his life, he's not getting scott-free by any stretch of the imagination.
As I said: there is a precedent.
Now to see where things go from there.