>I remembered when friends were back in the Napster times shook down for a few grand. Same with Bittorrent's earlier years. There was no amicable "Plz quit this

>I remembered when friends were back in the Napster times shook down for a few grand. Same with Bittorrent's earlier years. There was no amicable "Plz quit this and were good". The recording industry did offer an amnesty at the start of their campaign. It required you to promise to delete all existing illegally-downloaded content and promise not to engage of file sharing of copyrighted works in the future. It was called Clean Slate and very few people signed up for it, and it was criticized for various reasons, but they did offer it.