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Can this extend to every kid sued by the record industry for downloading a few songs.

Have we all been transported to bizzaro land?

Different rules for billion dollar corps I guess.



Those cases did very poorly whenever they actually went to court (well at least also including the ones that were summarily dismissed by the courts, meaning they didn't technically make it to court). They were much more of a mafia style shakedown than an actual legal enforcement effort.

Same rules, but people are a lot less inclined to defend themselves because the cost of loss was seen as too high to even risk it.




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