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Originally Posted by HarryT
Shouldn't "the law be blind" when it comes to such things? I feel rather uneasy about the idea that someone should escape prosecution if the cost of the court case would exceed the perceived "cost" of the crime. One of the purposes of the juducial system is surely to act as a deterent, and can it do that if someone can reasonably think "they won't bother to prosecute me"?
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It happens all the time though. The government isn't going to spend nearly as much time/resources going after petty criminals as they would going after major operations.
In a case like this, it really makes a lot more sense for the wronged party to go after the infringer rather than turn it into something the government needs to enforce.