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Originally Posted by dav3
I say, go after those that reproduce/host copyrighted material for profit. There are tons of bootleggers out there trying to make a couple bucks off of other people's hard work. Throw the book at them, take their profits. But don't extort over $200,000 from some ignorant computer user for 24 songs, that's just bullshit. They should have only won about $24, the actual price of the songs. Hell even give them another $24 for 'damages'.
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Damages are intended to recover what has been lost and to deter others from doing the same.
Would you stop if it cost you $48 instead of $24??? how about $480?? How about $4000?
Nothing has pointed to how many sharing violations occurred.
I had a picture up on FHM that was posted there without permission. My estimation is that it was viewed roughly 2 million times per day (they had over 20million hits daily while the picture was up) during the 2 month period it was available without my knowledge.
How much should I get paid for that? My usual fee plus some damages? $0.01 per viewing? That seems fair doesn't it? Until you learn that over 2 months that's 120 million viewings and at 1 cent per viewing I would get 1.2 million dollars. Who's to judge what's fair and what's not?
She broke the law. She got caught. I support the punishment.