zero129 said:
Nuvendil said:
I don't think they would need more than a couple dozen people to make an example of to make people think twice. Charge them together with the site owners as an ongoing criminal enterprise under the RICO Act. If my memory serves, they could be all charged collectively with the charges. Just make sure you pick members who are particularly bad (as in, they have consistently and frequently chosen to pirate instead of purchase) and the case would be pretty open shut And that's easily 2.5 to 10 years in prison along with potentially thousands in fines. If they wanted to make an example of true criminal copyright infringers and help stem the tide on that front, that's the way they could do it.
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Yes we all know how good the Law has been in putting the "Really" bad criminals in jail/prison.
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I didn't say it was necessarily easy. However, Criminal Copyright laws have pretty rarely been misapplied. Courts do are pretty strict, most copyright cases get kicked to civil court. So they would actually have to make sure they handpicked the right ones to construct a conspiracy people and the courts would get behind (even though technically anyone who downloaded more than a handful of torrents could be lumped in, but it just wouldn't fly in practical terms).