Re:Is this any surprise? (Score 1)

I don't disagree that it should be discouraged, just that the punishment should fit the crime. Giving harsher penalties to copyright infringers than to drug dealers is so far beyond absurd that there is no word in the English language strong enough to adequately express it.

Wait, what really is the crime? Where does the money from your $10 ticket, $5 popcorn, and $4 drink go? It goes to the people who make the film and run the theater. It even goes to the farmers that grow the corn - in both your drink and your bucket. Thats a lot of people, and if you give that movie you cammed in the theater to say half a million north american viewers, that adds up to a lot of money. Not to mention what happens to your video once it leaves the country. You may call it socialist bullshit or whatever else you want, but its still trickle down economics. One guy in a theater in Canada really can have that sort of effect in our world today. The world is flat. Now I ask, what is the harsher crime? A guy peddling drugs to a homeless bum, or a guy who's enabling the loss of $50 million dollars to the local and national economies? I think the potential monetary loss due to copyright infringement is far worse than the potential crime committed by my potential dealer.