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Originally Posted by Scootermuze
According to one provision of the U.S. Copyright Act, under certain circumstances a plaintiff is entitled to ?statutory damages? for each act of infringement in an amount from $500 to $20,000, ?as the court considers just. And in cases where the defendant?s conduct was ?willful,? that is, where he acted with knowledge that his conduct constituted copyright infringement, the court may ?in its discretion? increase the damages amount to as much as $100,000 per infringement. (These figures, which applied at the time of the court?s opinion in 1998, since have been increased, ....
Most folks know that Playboy doesn't mess around when it comes to people copying their property.. $100,000 per photo is a nice chunk o' change..
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well, when they "willfully" cut the images from the mag, and "willfully" scanned them to their harddrive, and "willfully" developed them into those html pages, and "willfully" uploaded them to their servers, and "willfully" updated them on the infringing sites, it really makes it look "willfull" huh?
fucking thiefs.