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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
Yet how are "out of court settlements" in cases where (strictly speaking) no proof (this is where the difference between "uploading" and "making available" comes in as a magic weasel word) is required (as none is offered beyond the assertion of the RIAA) to get an in-court conviction different from protection money asked for by the Mafia in earlier days?
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Because she
did offer the stated files for upload in breach of copyright. What is being debated is how much she ought to be fined for doing this, not whether or not she actually did it. Everybody accepts that she did.
Given the fact that she
knew that she was guilty, it was her choice to go to trial. She would have been far better off - IMHO - just taking the offer and paying up.