Have you ever even been to upstate New York?

I think most people by now understand the difference. The real question is do we want (what I will call) common copyright infringement, which is already against the law as a civil matter to be criminal fineable or jailable offense.

But now, do we want common copyright infringement infringement to be a crime?

I think most hear can agree that using someone's copyright against their will is wrong. But is it a moral wrong, a civil wrong, or a criminal wrong? Clearly those who own the copyrights don't want others using their copyrights without their authorization/compensation. But is this a battle that we want the government involved in, criminally? Some copyright infringement already is criminal. Remember all of those FBI warnings at the beginning of DVDs? If you start selling copyrighted materials as your own, you could be going to jail. And I think we call all agree that this is a crime. Clearly in large scale infringement cases, for example Microsoft using some Apple copyright, a civil proceeding is warranted and suitable.

But what do we do with individual offenders? The Pirate bay types. What type of crime is is? A moral one like adultery? (used to be a crime, but is not anymore **exceptions noted**) or should it rise to a punishable offense? What is the line between the two?

These are the questions we should be asking ourselves and as a society and not allowing special interest groups to drive the discussion.

Almost certainly they will just auction them off like they would with a seized car or house. Someone will probably pay 97 cent or so to the dollar on the spot exchange rate of bitcoins to dollars on that day and it will be his problem to convert them on an exchange.

It a city that size, that doesn't really seem like that many to me.

Everyone that has a Ford has given his consent by signing on of the 300 forms that you sign when you get a new (to you) car.

I assume that if it is ever stored, I can be retrievable by the government through court order or NSA subpoena.

I assume the next stop would be to be used by private citizens in traffic accident lawsuits.

If they were serious about this, Why not fork into two separate pools?

Not really. Pretty much anyone who is currently in the press gets held in solitary confinement because the corrections department doesn't what their name in the papers if something happens to him.

Um, this is that.

Returns. Bitcoins are up about 100% over the past month. Even smart people start to lose their minds when they see returns like that.

This is correct. The first stage of any criminal prosecution after arraignment is decisions on motions to exclude different type evidence that the prosecutor is required to disclose that they intent to use at trial. This could be 1) physical evidence, like the smoking gun, 2) statements such as interviews with the police or other admissions 3) or electronic evidence such as this.

My sister still likes going to the store and browsing. This is crazy to me.

I think most people understand you can be intelligent coming out of home schooling, but that the relative lack of social interaction with peers has to hamper your interaction with others in the college atmosphere.

and hitting on girls a decade young than me in short skirts.

I figured that they already knew I liked checking out all of the hot chicks in the Match.com/online dates.

Maybe some other algorithm already knows that I'm sad and alone. :(