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Originally Posted by kane
No they should be punished. Equal punishment is fine with me. I just don't want to see Sony having to give up all of their copyrights because they took down some shitty little site where the owner was making $50 a month. It should be equal. A movie company should be able to show the value of a movie that is being pirated on that site. If the site owner can prove that the damages they received were equal to that value than I wouldn't have a problem with the movie company losing control of that copyright, but not all of the copyrights that they own.
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so the little guy making $50/month if he is wrong should pay millions of dollars in damages (statutory damages), even though sony fails to prove that they lost even 1 penny in sales.
but a totally innocent site who name has been destroyed, his company been destroyed, and who is forever going to be considered a theif even though he was totally innocent should only get the money he can prove he lost on that one venture
Forget the value of all his future jobs,
forget the intense emotional distress caused by being falsely accused
forget the value of his name
forget the huge upside potential that was destroyed because he was prevented from taking advantage of it.
Let me ask the question then
How many totally innocent companies do you believe you should have a right to destroy
Give me an actual number.