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Grand Forks Afb, ND | reply to russotto
Re: Bitch all you want....it is still piracy. said by russotto:
Don't exaggerate: piracy is when you board a vessel at sea, capture or kill its crew, and steal everything valuable aboard (possibly including the vessel itself). This carries a term of life in prison
Downloading a song, on the other hand, carries a theoretical maximum term of only one year in prison under the NET act. Plus 5 years for each subsequent song. Figuring the average human lifespan is on the order of 80 years, that means you have to download about 17 songs to reach the level of piracy.
ISPs aren't liable for copyright violations committed by P2P users, so they are unlikely to "go after" too many customers.
Also, if you redistribute for profit. As that is essentially what the sailing pirates did. An example of this is how I can go right outside the base gate at Osan AB, S. Korea and buy for $5-10 the latest releases of any movie. VHS quality. Surround sound (mostly). You can also take your XBox or PS2 to the "old man" who will modify it to play backup copies and give you 25 games of your choice for $100 US. That, SONY is pirating. Good luck going after odishi over in Korea.
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