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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
It's not going to work out until the laws change to deal with it as minor crimes that get appropriate penalties, and there's an agency to police the net for illegal downloads etc.
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In order for that to work (somebody else police it), you'd have to criminalize all copyright infringement. That's probably a really bad idea.
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Make it a misdemeanor, make the penalty something like the value +25% as a fine, and be done with it.
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The value of what? You're talking about uploading, or downloading? It's debatable whether downloading (receiving content from somebody else who is infringing on the right to distribute) is even illegal, let alone the technical hurdles that make it fairly impossible to even monitor.
If you are proposing to explicitly criminalize downloading, that is going to have a MUCH bigger impact than I think you realize. It would effectively kill off the internet.