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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
if states/counties start allocating police officers that are much needed on the streets to tracking people who download movies and music, I'd think you would have outrage by the general public.
And I look at the problem of downloading much like i look at the problem of drugs. You can lock up all the drug users you want but unless you put the dealers/pushers behind bars you'll just have more and more users to lock up. Go after those who enable those to download. Only that would make sense and require a lot less manpower.
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By this logic we should not prosecute the Enron and World com scandles.
They should get away with multi-billion dollar fraud because somewhere in some town somebody got shot.
I see plenty of cops doing nothing so they are not so overloaded to the point where they need to ignore one crime in favor of another.
If you want to do your part to free the cops up to focus on "big crime" then don't call them when someone steals your car or punches you in the mouth.
But you will call the cops as soon as it happens and if they hang up the phone saying that all 3000 of them are busy profiing a serial killer you will think they a full of bullshit and it doesn't take 3000 people to profile the killer.
You are only arguing this point because you want to continue to download freely.
Further, the cops did not make this a priority!!! Illegal downloading has been going on since 1995 at least. They waited 12 years to prosecute two people and you think they are allocating too much resources to it??? Give me a break.