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A bunch of people have gone to prison, or been put on probation/house arrest and had to pay large fines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fastlink https

A bunch of people have gone to prison, or been put on probation/house arrest and had to pay large fines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fastlink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fastlink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Buccaneer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Buccaneer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Site_Down https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Site_Down

paulie_a 7y ago
The odds are lower than winning the lottery.
- astrodust 7y ago
  Yet people win the lottery every day. The EFF exists for a reason. Hopefully not a reason that you'll ever personally need, but if that day comes and the hammer comes down on you, you'll be thankful people prepared for that situation.
  - paulie_a 7y ago
    1 in a 180 million. What is your point? The eff doesn't exist to defend pirates so that is irrelevant. Pirating in every shape in form has to be one of of the lowest crimes to get caught for. And most cracks come from overseas so good luck there.
    - Thorrez 7y ago
      > The eff doesn't exist to defend pirates so that is irrelevant. That depends on your definition of piracy. The EFF strongly fights against the DMCA. > Pirating in every shape in form has to be one of of the lowest crimes to get caught for. Low in terms of what? Punishment? A fair number of people have received harsh punishments, as already mentioned. You mention you were caught distributing a lot of pirated material, so the probability of getting caught seems high. The fraction of people that received a non-trivial punishment of those caught distributing a lot of pirated material is higher than 1/180 million.
      - paulie_a 7y ago
        No I did not mention I was caught in any significant way. I never had a worry in the world about getting caught. Outside of receiving a no consequence piece of paper in the mail that means nothing.

paulie_a 7y ago

The odds are lower than winning the lottery.

astrodust 7y ago
Yet people win the lottery every day. The EFF exists for a reason. Hopefully not a reason that you'll ever personally need, but if that day comes and the hammer comes down on you, you'll be thankful people prepared for that situation.
- paulie_a 7y ago
  1 in a 180 million. What is your point? The eff doesn't exist to defend pirates so that is irrelevant. Pirating in every shape in form has to be one of of the lowest crimes to get caught for. And most cracks come from overseas so good luck there.
  - Thorrez 7y ago
    > The eff doesn't exist to defend pirates so that is irrelevant. That depends on your definition of piracy. The EFF strongly fights against the DMCA. > Pirating in every shape in form has to be one of of the lowest crimes to get caught for. Low in terms of what? Punishment? A fair number of people have received harsh punishments, as already mentioned. You mention you were caught distributing a lot of pirated material, so the probability of getting caught seems high. The fraction of people that received a non-trivial punishment of those caught distributing a lot of pirated material is higher than 1/180 million.
    - paulie_a 7y ago
      No I did not mention I was caught in any significant way. I never had a worry in the world about getting caught. Outside of receiving a no consequence piece of paper in the mail that means nothing.