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Originally Posted by Blameless View Post

In a very real sense, I have already made such sacrifices.

I am not "most people" and I have even less desire to play by the rules most people enslave themselves with.

I have no insurance (other than well hidden savings), no benefits, and have never been anything but self-employed. I have no diploma, no degrees, no certifications, and no employment record. I have never filed a tax return. I have never written a resume. I have never filled out a job application. I likely never will. Yet, I've managed to live largely on my own for most of the last decade, and I live well.

Most people likely would consider the way I live my life to be impractical, or even impossible, but most people are narrow-minded, unimaginative, idiots.
Not impossible, depending on the country in which you live, but probably risky, slightly illogical and immoral. You are essentially evading tax whilst confessing to "live well", not to mention simultaneously declaring this way of life as requiring sacrifices whilst saying it is not impractical.

This does not make a lot of sense, but even if it did it is not the same as evading debt collectors or a CCJ in the United Kingdom. If creditors (in this case the RIAA) were at the point where they are filing for a CCJ or employing a debt collection agency then your finances would not remain private for long. And past tax evasion would likely make life considerably worse.

You also currently profess to "live well", this would not be possible if you had £500,000 in debts being spread between a debt collection company and a CCJ enforced repayment plan. Which was my original point.
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Didn't say that anywhere. Actually, I said the opposite. That most people don't agree with the specific punishment, but hopefully would agree he deserved to be punished.
What do I personally think? I'm not sure. He definitely deserves a punishment here, but I would say $500 per song or so should be a deterrent, but I'm no expert.

Eh, way i see it, the entire thing is designed to be a deterrent - fine a ridiculously huge amount for a rather trivial thing = media coverage. Exactly what they need to subdue the masses. This guy is being made an example of to others. Perhaps they stash a bit of money in the reporters pockets to get the ball rollin' too.

From my perspective, this is just the big boys throwing their weight around, knowing full well when applied in the right way, will get them the results they want. If i were this individual, i'd have completely ignored every threat they sent my way. And probably given them the verbal finger to boot.
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Originally Posted by capitaltpt View Post

The biggest problem is that he responded back willing to pay $500. That right there is an admission of guilt.

Yeah, i guessed that was his first (second?) mistake.
Edited by Thingamajig - 9/2/12 at 11:36am
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what about those with data caps or really slow internet? I have crap internet with no faster available speeds. Streaming anything = bandwidth eaten up quickly.
Hop back into the DeLorean and come back to the year 2012.
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Hop back into the DeLorean and come back to the year 2012.
No, YOU need to come back to reality. I live 2-3minutes from 3 major cities but am stuck with horrible DSL. Most of the US doesnt have good internet. Even some of my friends who live in a large community inside the city can only get 7mbps down max.

And about data caps...I shouldnt even have to go there. TONS of european and canadian ISPs have crappy data caps.
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Apparently he's been fighting the case since 2003? This article is nonsense.
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Apparently he's been fighting the case since 2003? This article is nonsense.

Punishment doesn't fit the crime. You can beat the **** out of someone where I live and end up with no where near the fine and MAYBE a few months in jail.
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