Reply #119: You will pay what we tell you to!

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Well, what they tell you too anyways. And just how will these fines be determined? Search warrents? Seizing people's computers? Who's going to count all the songs - find them on hard drives, burned discs etc? $2 is hardly worth all the time and effort. But $150,000.. now that's worth it. No.. wouldn't happen to most. It'll go like this - they will bust some people, make an "example" of them with these crazy fines. And that's when "the fear" sets in for the population. Oh man, I've downloaded songs.. do you think they will come for me today? Tomorrow? No don't send me that song you want me to hear - I could get arrested! How will they find out? Oh yeah, they will have to monitor our web traffic. Do you really want to legally give the government that much power? Hackers will resort to using trojans/viruses to store songs on other people's computers. Wait - what if that happens to me? And what about those poor people that got made an example of?

Here's the harsh reality and sooner or later, people will have to pick sides. You can either have file sharing, or a police state - but you can't have both. If you like an artist - support them! But never support the corporate scum that is the RIAA!

*on edit - Oh yeah, don't forget about the enevitable suicides of some of those charged over $150,000 per track who downloaded tons of albums. There is no way they will ever be able to pay it off and who wants to spend the rest of their lives working day in day out just to see a huge percentage of their income go to the RIAA?