As such, if one song is worth $1 to buy, but she left KaZaa on and helped distribute it to 30,000 other people, the actual damage done isn't $1, but $30,000.
I agree. I think an important distinction is the $money$..... copy a CD and sharing it with a friend is technically illegal too.... but the money companies loose from that is insignifcant compared to the P2P on the internet.
A criminal being brought to justice. I don't even know why this is being discussed.
Because it isn't black and white. It used to be legal to own slaves. Society changed and so did the laws. Society is changing, but unfortunatly the laws having to do with internet are having "trouble" keeping up.
If she had been downloading music from Kaaza a year or two ago, nothing would have happened to her. Just like copying a VHS tape is technically illegal, but nothing will happen to you (or at least most people expect nothing to happen) if you do.
But I am pretty sure you are a saint and have never broken a single law, so you wouldn't understand because you are soooo much better than everyone else. Right.......
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And for anyone else who thinks its so simple.... well if you go to Washington State... you better not have a cold. Its Illegal to have a cold in public..... your such a terrible person! If you get fined $1.5 million dollars for having a cold its.....
A criminal being brought to justice. I don't even know why this is being discussed.
RCW 70.54.050
Exposing contagious disease -- Penalty.
Every person who shall wilfully expose himself to another, or any animal affected with any contagious or infectious disease, in any public place or thoroughfare, except upon his or its necessary removal in a manner not dangerous to the public health; and every person so affected who shall expose any other person thereto without his knowledge, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
