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> As I understand it, wealthy people had a lot of influence over the government and were able to lobby for extreme punishments to protect their fortunes. Weste
by ionised 12y ago
> As I understand it, wealthy people had a lot of influence over the government and were able to lobby for extreme punishments to protect their fortunes.
Western society has come a long way indeed.
Oh, wait...
- V-2 12y agohttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/18/minnesota.music.download.fine/index.html?eref=ib_us http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/18/minnesota.music.down... "A federal jury Thursday found a 32-year-old Minnesota woman guilty of illegally downloading music from the Internet and fined her $80,000 each -- a total of $1.9 million -- for 24 songs." (After long battles in courts, the penalty was ultimately settled at $222,000).