 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to Simba7
Re: Maximum fine set at £50,000 for illegal file-sharing said by Simba7:Not that I'm into piracy, but is this just another way to suck money from the innocent? Does it really cost the music industry 50,000 pounds for each song shared? Is it going to be the same here, where if the RI/MPAA suspect anything, even a printer, of filesharing that they'll sue them into financial oblivion for the rest of their lives? A) Innocent? I doubt they are randomly sending out fines to random people. I suppose you are one that thinks NO ONE EVER downloads anything illegally.
B) Unless I read it's wrong it's 50,000 pounds TOTAL not per song. Which is actually alot better than what you can end up paying here in the US. Also that's the MAX fine. You could get fined a smaller amount. Think of it this way, here in the US when a crime has a 10 year max prison sentence, how many people actualy do the 10 years? Almost none.
Also the 50,000 number I guess is to supposed to act as a deterant. Honstly I still don't get why people still steal songs off the internet. They took away the DRM that's what everyone bitched about. That's what they used as an excuse. what the excuse now? |
