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Originally posted by Amputate Your Head
well, I'm not saying it's right, but how can they possibly hope to collect $750 to $150K per song per person from your basic average computer user? That's insane
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That's the easy part....they will settle for much less. My guess is between 1 and 5k. I bet you that many of the people they will go after have that kind of money. They aren't doing it for the money, they are doing it to deter people. Just like 20 years in jail is certainly not a fair sentence for murdering someone, it is there to deter people from murder. Same concept.
And in response to your post after this one, they certainly could confiscate peoples computers. Copyright law allows for the impoundment of anything used to facilitate the infringement.