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Originally Posted by Cretaceous Bob
You're insane, and I hope someone steals all your shit and blames it on a guy who sold them a warehouse.
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I will sell a bicycle for $99 and leave it outside in a bad neighborhood. When it gets stolen, the judge will demand that the defendant pay me $7,920,000 in damages. I hope someone steals my shit too, and I don't care if they blame it on Twinkies.
The purpose of the post isn't if downloading music is right, that's a horse that has been sufficiently beaten. The purpose was, is $80,000 a reasonable fine for downloading a $0.99 song.
The only way to justify that, is to prove that her downloading it, allowed others to download it illegally as well, costing the company 80,000 sales. Which lets say it did. She is paying the fine for crimes commited by other people, not just her own. And I see no mention of any of the uploaders she downloaded from being charged as well.
Basically its like watching someone buy a gun, then charging them with the murder of an unknown victim.