Originally Posted by Kevin-SFBucks

I don't think that's the point.. but lets run with it anyway.

If we didn't have people sharing, we couldn't have people downloading illegally from them now could we?

Also.. if I am a prosecutor... I would rather go after the girl that shared the file 1750 times, than find the 1750 downloaders. It just makes it easier on me. It also scares the shit out of the other sharers and gets them to stop hopefully. Even moreso.... one person violating the law 1750 times gets me the same financial benefit in punishment as 1750 single violators.... I save money prosecuting the single offender rather than chasing the big group just on economies of scale.