Originally Posted by sortie

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.