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This is unbelievable!
http://www.prefixmag.com/news/seven-crimes-that-will-get-you-a-smaller-fine-than/32033/

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hinking about file-sharing? Don't. You'll get fined, and crime doesn't pay (unless you rob banks and/or armored cars, then it pays very well). Take it from Jammie Thomas, who was fined $2 million for downloading 24 songs, or anyone else who tried to fight the RIAA.

 

Instead, TRY another crime, because plenty of them draw far lighter penalties than downloading Jason Mraz's latest. Thanks to the Mechanics blog at Gapers Block, here are seven crimes that will get you smaller fines than file-sharing:

 

1. Child abduction: the fine is only like $25000.

2. STEALING the actual CD: the fine is $2,500

3. Rob your neighbor: the fine is $375,000

4. Burn a house down: The fine is just over $375,000

5. Stalk someone: The fine is $175,000

6. Start a dogfighting ring: the fine is $50,000

7. Murder someone: The maximum penalty is only $25,000 and 15 years in jail, and depending on your yearly salary, would probably be far slighter a penalty that $2 million.

 

Seriously, murdering someone will result in a lighter overall penalty than downloading a bunch of songs and getting caught. Granted, you don't get shivved in the showers at home, but still.
holy $### thats insane"File Sharing" strictly speaking is not the same as using a Torrent.

Not many people realize that almost all File sharing networks, Such as those employed by limewire- are seeded heavily with files whose downloading is strictly monitored. this is how they catch ya.

Not to say that torrents don't have similar issues, but the think is with a torrent it's a many to many uploader-downloader relationship, whereas with file sharing networks it's almost always one uploader, many downloaders.

If one was to download music from a torrent, even if one of the seeders was strictly monitored, the best they could do is prove that you MIGHT have downloaded portions of the file- those portions that were uploaded to you by the "monitored" seeder. Additionally  some seeders of this form try to corrupt the download... which fails MISERABLY and simply results in that seeder being ignored for future REQUESTS.



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