Iori35 said:
However, I don't equate people who commit piracy to completely over the top cartoon villains.
New Troll in exactly want way does piracy directly involve the welfare of her children?
I mean this kind of case isn't common, the vast majority of pirates are never caught or at least are not taken to court.
She is losing money that could go towards her children's welfare. She could lose everything, which in turn could take her children away from her for not being able to financialy support them anymore. All stuff she should have thought about
before commiting the crime.
I find the trend of blaming the parents for everything that happens or might happen to their children to be biased and it sometimes gets twisted/spun in a manner that's simply unfair.
Not everything a child does is thier parent's fault, but everything a parent does does impact thier child's life. Parents with moral disregards tend to influence thier children's own moralities. Sometimes for the good, but more often for the bad.
You're oversimplifying the problems and the relationships between actions and penalties.
You want over-simplification?
If you're not willing to pay the fine, don't do the crime. How's that? If I speed, I should be ready to get pulled over and can't complain when it happens. If I make a copy of a movie I own to give to a friend, I should not be upset when the authorities show up at my doorstep with a $150,000 fine since it says right there before the movie it could happen. If I was giving someone else's property away without thier consent, I should be ready if the law catches me.
The amount of the fine is ridiculous, unfair and quite frankly cruel.
It being set at $80k per song, wow those must have been some amazing songs there...hmm?
I'm not saying $80k is a lot, but it also is very little considering everything to consider. She could have easily taken away more than $1.92 million from the music industry with the amount of thier product she was giving away. Even at only getting fined for 24 of the songs, I've been to several sites that offer product in this way and they will sometimes get into the hundred thousand downloads at one time. And this is only at that particular minute! Imagine, $1 a download from all those people. Even if only a quarter of them actualy pay and the rest decide it's not worth the money over-all, that's still a ton of money. Sure she got fined a lot of money, but I imagine she took away even more from the Industry so I don't feel it's too harsh.
And I do hope the best for her and especially her children. I hope she wisens up and pays off the Music Industry for whatever they're offering her and learns her lesson. If not for her sake, for her children. I don't know if she's a bad person or not, but even if she is, it's never to late to turn your life around.
). I find it sad to see it's artists constantly being cheated out of what they deserve. So yes I think she deserved what she got. I know CD's are too expensive but so are games and movies. Her punishment was harsh but you have to remember that just because something (downloading music) is done a lot it doesn't make it OK. In New Zealand High school students smoke a lot of pot "In the 1998 National Drugs Survey, 43 percent of males and 27 percent of females aged 18 to 24 years had used marijuana in the preceding 12 months. Most of those who stated that they had tried marijuana had been introduced to the drug at between 14 and 18 years of age." from, http://www.nzhis.govt.nz/moh.nsf/pagesns/130 I can assure you it has gone up since then but that is the most recent survey I could find. Dose the fact that it is common place make it OK?
