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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
This would be the same way. Having a criminal penalty for illegally uploading doesn't take away the copyright holder's right to sue for damages.
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Uploading is already illegal, so I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish. If the uploading is big enough to get the governments attention, then it is already criminal. The "smaller" stuff is civil and is up to the right's holder to pursue.
If all you want is to make the smaller stuff criminal as well, the only thing that really does is put the government in the position of working to protect a private business's interests, rather than societies interests. I'm not sure what the point of that would be.