Posted by Technobarbarian on 11/29/05 17:28

"Rick B." <hiredgun56@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1133282132.502056.272020@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Evolution of "law" is not about law perse..it's about fines and
> money....

Whatever that means.
>
> Its a question of technology passing the masses...out of probably a
> million plus file sharers around the world, (that was a guess)

And a pretty lame quess at that. One estimate is that 61 million
Americans use file sharing at one time or another. Of course not all of them
are trading copyright protected files.

....online
> at one time sharing tens of millions of files...unless you're online
> 24-7 and days at a time....I'd roll the dice....you get better odds
> here, than you do in Vegas...

Lemmse, a few hundred dollars worth of music against $3,000 minimum--oh
yeah--great odds if you're totally dim. The sad thing here is that there are
all you have to do is use better methods to avoid the risk.
>
> If its free..people will find a way around it...and they can't watch
> everyone...this is a fact.
>
> And the "smaller fish"..the nickel and dime downloaders....do not even
> matter.

Dead Grannies and children have had lawsuits filed against them. Being
one of the "smaller fish" is no guarantee of safety.

TB

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