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This isn't a fine. This is the damages he's been sentenced to pay to the rights holders.
by orjan 13y ago
This isn't a fine. This is the damages he's been sentenced to pay to the rights holders.
- jeltz 13y agoAnd Sweden does not have statutory or punitive damages either so this is all supposed to compensate for real harm.
- Dylan16807 13y agoSo if the damages for thousands to millions of copies of the movie are being blamed on the initial public seeder, does that mean nobody else in the torrent is responsible for any damages?
- gizmo686 13y agoThe damage that a single peer causes is roughly that they themselves are less likely to purchase the movie. There is an aggravate effect of having such a large swarm enable additional people to enter this group, but the contribution of any individual to this is small. In contrast, the initial uploader is what enabled the entire thing in the first place.