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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm sorry, but you can't blame society for a lack of ethics in these kids. Blame their parents, perhaps, for not teaching them the difference between right and wrong, but they were well aware of the law, and they chose to regard themselves as "above" it.
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Where did I talk about ethics? I'm talking about the law, and the final word has hardly been said on that yet. Hence my emphasis on the Appeals process.
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I find it very sad that it should have come to that, but if you commit a crime, you have to pay the penalty. This isn't some small-time personal downloading - these are people who have been raking in millions of dollars by cynically and knowingly breaking the law, and now they're being punished for it.
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Myes. I'll have to ask you to find me an objective source for that report on the damages caused, as well as on the money made by them now, as I've been unable to find that myself.
Yes, the damage will likely be non-zero, but from that it
just does not follow that the figures mentioned by the RIAA et al. are correct. Similarly for those idiotic reports on what the operators of the pirate bay "made".