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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm sorry, but I don't know what you mean by "felony" - I don't think we use that word in Britain. If you tell me what it means, I'll tell you whether or not speeding is one!
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I'm in Britain, and I used it - and I said what it meant in my post!
It comes from English law:
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Originally Posted by OED
(Feudal Law.) An act on the part of a vassal which involved the forfeiture of his fee.
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later part of common and statute law
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Originally Posted by OED
(Common and Statute Law.) Formerly the general name for a class of crimes which may loosely be said to be regarded by the law as of a graver character than those called misdemeanours. No longer differentiated from misdemeanour (see quot. 1967).
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but since 1967 not differentiated from a misdemeanor.
Anyway, my point was simply that calling copying a "bad crime" was OTT.