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Originally Posted by HarryT
Sorry - someone who sells an illegally copied book, DVD, or whatever, for the specific purpose of making money from it is not committing a criminal copyright violation in the US? They sure as heck are in the UK!
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It would have to be the government that went after them though, and I'm not sure that would really happen in a "small time" case where somebody uploads a book to Amazon. Usually you only see criminal copyright charges in large bootleg operations. I'm not sure if the government is going to waste their time going after one guy who uploaded a couple books.
More likely, I think the copyright holder would be the one that brought a suit, and that would be a civil trial, not criminal.
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It is this specific act - attempting to make money from selling illegally-copied material - that I have a "rabid hatred" of, Shaggy. I think it's truly despicable.
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You believe that sending someone to jail for the rest of their life (throw away the key) is an appropriate punishment for trying to sell material that didn't belong to them? You consider it to be on the same level as committing murder?