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I think he's arguing that the scale of the punishment is not just. People get charged up to several hundred thousand dollar fines for downloading a tiny amount
by twymer 16y ago
I think he's arguing that the scale of the punishment is not just. People get charged up to several hundred thousand dollar fines for downloading a tiny amount of music.
- hugh3 16y agoI'd agree that's unjust. Got links to any cases where people have had to pay several hundred thousand dollar fines for downloading (rather than uploading) songs?
- mquander 16y agoI'm not sure what the current state of law is. Morally speaking, I don't believe that people should be paying those kinds of fines for either downloading or uploading in "casual" use ("casual" meaning that they're not original distributors of the material.) The judgments that I immediately recall are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_v._Tenenbaum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_v._Tenenbaum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_v._Thomas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_v._Thomas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMG_Music_v._Gonzalez http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMG_Music_v._Gonzalez