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Originally Posted by Quoth
But why was he able to get away with it so long, or even at all?
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The great majority of crimes do not result in an arrest.
One might, though, say that after committing a crime a few dozen times, your chances of arrest go way up.
I think the miscreant beat the odds because he never tried to profit, and never tried to reduce the income of authors and publishers. While wire fraud is something you should never do, I find his to be minor crimes.
Compare it to someone who uploads under-copyright eBooks to an illicit web site. That seems to me a far more serious crime, even if the number of eBooks is a lot less than 1,000.
I hope the guilty party is not sent to prison.