said by axus:Ouch, that seems disproportionate to the offense of copyright infringement.
That is the point. The MAFIAA wants Draconian penalties in a
de juris system which costs them nothing to bring a complaint, and for which the penalty is 100% certain in their favor, and sufficiently harsh that Internet users will quake in their chairs as they surf the 'net.
They seem to think they will mitigate piracy by hammering the little guy hard.
Personally, I don't think it will work. For all the piracy I committed, I never feared their hammer; I was not pirating their "junk". I did not stop my piracy out of fear of the MAFIAA; but only because the "stuff" I wanted became easily, and legally available.