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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
Techdirt recently said ( here) that it costs 12 million euros a year to run Hadopi. |
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French media, €12 million is the 2013 budget request. But we are now in the ballpark.
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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
Here's an info graph that shows the before and after effects of Hadopi:
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No evidence concerning books.
I know that English speakers are adopting eBooks more quickly than French speakers, so book statistics probably are not yet available.
My evidence-free suggestion is that readers are, on average, more risk adverse than the music and video crowd, in part because of being older. A Hadopi type of law should work better with them.
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Originally Posted by Barty
$190 is ridiculously lenient.
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I would have chosen a lower amount, but this seems fair to me.
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If they extradite him to the US and leave him to the tender mercies of the **AA, he'd be paying $600,000 for sharing 12 songs.
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You may be conflating criminal and civil proceedings. You can't get extradited because you were sued by a trade group.
As for $600,000, I don't know where this amount comes from, and the RIAA lawsuits stopped several years ago.