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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Keep in mind the judgment blocks access only to your home. You can still access via work, library, Internet cafe etc. Not sure about via mobile phone.
And I think you underestimate the value of paper mail and the telephone.  |
I'm not talking about how I could
make do with paper and telephones, I'm talking about how often I now use paper mail and a telephone to communicate with friends, acquaintances, and more official purposes. I'd be unable to keep up with at least half my friends without it, and I can't imagine it's meant to deprive you of your social life, as that would be a rather sadistic way to 'punish' someone.
In any case, it would seem that you forgot to answer my main claim, that is, that this kind of punishment is almost unheard-of in a civil suit. It's utterly unclear what you're being punished for, as the industry could just as easily report you for 'making available' a
single file as 20,000, with no need whatever to prove that there are actual damages. So you're punished "on principle" because a business wants to punish you for not consuming enough of their goods. Sounds worse than communism to me.
Again, the punishment is totally unbefitting the infraction.