Soo...Mr lawyer...your saying to take money away from a dying person to ensure their final days are in immense pain is equal punishment for a possible uneducated 19 year old downloading a song. I'm sorry people whom steal and murder don't get those judgement against them. Even after there is 100% undisputable proof. It violates thier civil rights as to cruel and unusual punishment.
And being there is no proof that someone in that household actually did that vs. a Russian or Wisconsin hacker downloading via thier control to that PC then copying the files off to thier own hard drive somewhere in the Ukraine or Wisconsin. How can you say that? Do you have absolute positive proof their machine has not been comprimised.
You don't And the RIAA has made that mistake before and walked away ruining people lives over a SONG that a hacker downloaded to a remote machine then transferred! Somehow the industry doesn't believe someone can hack a computer illiterates machine, but acknowlege hackers can bring down thier routers and servers with DDOS attacks
http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-008.pdf
I got a sense off of your comment, that maybe your not as innocent as a newborn lamb either. you probably also believe that when talent writes a song about someone or some event, thy are "inspired" rather than "exploiting". Theft is theft whether you download a song that is not paid for or make money off of people, events or situations that you were not a part of, by writing a song about it.
...then selling it.
