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And false advertising is just as illegal as trespassing, but that doesn't mean we should conflate them. What's abusive is the punishment. Would it be abusive i

• earbitscom 15y ago
  If people were randomly walking into traffic at the same rate that they're taking content that doesn't belong to them I think we'd be pretty quick to support swift and decisive action. Everyone cries (me included) when some poor sap has to take a million dollar beating for downloading a handful of MP3s. If 1000 people losing the internet after being warned already once helps to stop that from happening, and simultaneously starts getting the public to take this issue seriously, I think everyone is better off for it. When you get a warning about this issue, you educate yourself about it, stop doing what you're not supposed to, and you move on. How long do we have to side with ignorance (meaning that people don't know they're doing something wrong) over fairness to content owners?