I was trying to illustrate how ridiculous copyright laws are. Copyright trolls are trying to stretch the laws as far as they can, by trying to extort money from people who may have only uploaded a few bits of data out a 1GB+ file.
Therefore, if in your mind, the following argument is valid:
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You don't like the law then get the law changed.........until then, you break the law and you pay the price.
Then I say, in that case, using a copyrighted avatar in a public forum should also be considered copyright infringement since you are "making it available" to the public. But hey, if you don't like the law, get it changed. Until then, if you break the law then you pay the price.
edit: One more thing; copyright infringement is not stealing. When you download a file, the person you are downloading it from still has their file. When stealing takes place, someone loses the item that was stolen. If you're unable to differentiate between stealing and copyright infringement you shouldn't be debating this issue.