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Umm, yes it does, and yes it is. For example, when photocpoiers came into use, there was significant concern over private individuals using them to copy materials rather than purchasing books. This concern was mostly focused on copiers placed in libraries where patrons could take a book in the...

We pretty much already know your position already. It is almost certainly the same one held by the bulk of people who don't understand the purpose of copyright, and don't see why we should compensate authors for creative expression.

That was JRRNeiklot's quote you are responding to, not mine.

For a minor, at least in the U.S., there is a decent chance that their parents will be vicariously liable for paying damaged resulting from their torts. The question is not necessarily how the defendant will pay the settlement, but how their parents will. Most people are unlikely to make only...

The usual means of enforcing a judgment, assuming the debtor doesn't simply cough up a big chunk of change or a check for the full amount, is to work out some sort of payment plan. Failing that, the plaintiff can place a judgment lien on any property the debtor may own, and attach the debtor's...

No, one number isn't as good as another. The 2,600 number is the number of infringing acts, and if you look at the statute, it doesn't require evidence of lost sales, merely evidence of instances of infringement. The measure of damages can be lost sales, but Congress recognized that this would...

Well, since it can't be demonstrated that it did garner sales, that's not going to be very persuasive in court. Like I said before, there is only one reasonably objective metric for measuring the effect of this sort of thing: the actual number of illegal downloads. Anything else is purely...

I'd need to look at their credit histories, ages, and so on. Just because they may not be able to pay this off now doesn't mean that they won't have resources in the future, and a judgment is usually enforceable for twenty years (or even thirty in some jurisdictions). However, the simplest...

Well, permissible to hold him responsible for all incidents of infringement that he had a hand in. The lesson here is if you don't want to be potentially liable for many instances of infringement, don't upload a book to a torrent site.

If $225,000 is "close to nothing", perhaps you could mail that over to me. Take it up with Congress if it bothers you.

You ever been to a "developing country"? I have. And I'm saying that the people who have computers, internet access and the free time to spend scanning and uploading materials to torrent sites aren't impovereshed waifs living on the streets scrabbling for scraps of bread. In fact, most of them...

It is amazing how many people drop right into the labor theory of value isn't it?

One could also point out that even if the defendants lived in third world countries, given that they apparently have enough money to have access to a computer, the internet, and a scanner, they would probably be amoung the privileged elite in such a country, and I wouldn't be shedding many tears...

The main flaw with your argument is that WotC did not decide punishment. The U.S. Congress did. WotC merely used the tools provided by the law. If you have a problem with the size of the potential award in an infringement suit, complain to Congress rather than ranting on the internet. WotC sued...

That's a nice argument in favor of misappropriating anything with no penalty. It is supposedly bogus because you assume that no one would have bought the book, because they downloaded it instead of buying it, which means that they didn't value the book as much as the seller did. How do you come...

Or perhaps one of the Beatles remastered box sets.

It's even older than you think: The Sleeping Dragon by Joel Rosenberg The Sword and the Chain by Joel Rosenberg The Silver Crown by Joel Rosenberg The Heir Apparent by Joel Rosenberg The Warrior Lives by Joel Rosenberg The Road to Ehvenor by Joel Rosenberg

Who is your character most like: Mal, Zoe, Wash, Jayne, Inara, Book, Kayleigh, Simon, or River? Alternatively, Patience, Niska, Badger, the Operative, Mr. Universe, or the Men with Blue Hands.

If not Buffy, then maybe BESM or Amber.

The common thread through all of this is that you have not expanded the volume of material on the market. You take your copy of a book to the second hand store, you lose access to the material except as your memory is good enough to retain it in your mind. If you want to (or need to) refresh...