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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 4968652" data-attributes="member: 2209">I went back to the beginning trying to find people saying that.People thought the penalties were high.&nbsp; People thought the penalties were high to send a message of deterrence.I can't find anyone saying these people were punished more severely than other infringers prosecuted under these civil laws.The statement of yours I was responding to was the first paragraph of post #36. Looking back over the comments before this post I couldn't find anybody saying these were singled out beyond other prosecuted infringers, just that the legal damages award and settlement figures are punishing and meant to send a warning, &quot;to terrorize others into compliance with the law&quot;.The closest was Haakon1 who thought sending a message using punishment as a warning to others was unconstitutional.Everybody else seemed to just be saying this was to punish and send a message.Bold added aboveYou keep saying that even though the penalties are more than losses and are by definition punishment and deterrence these settlements are not sending a message because these individuals are not prosecuted more than others under the same laws.I keep saying there is a message, Congress authorized one in every prosecuted infringer case and WotC took them up on it with prosecuting $225,000 in settlement awards by targeting these defendants under these laws.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 4968652, member: 2209"] I went back to the beginning trying to find people saying that. People thought the penalties were high. People thought the penalties were high to send a message of deterrence. I can't find anyone saying these people were punished more severely than other infringers prosecuted under these civil laws. The statement of yours I was responding to was the first paragraph of post #36. Looking back over the comments before this post I couldn't find anybody saying these were singled out beyond other prosecuted infringers, just that the legal damages award and settlement figures are punishing and meant to send a warning, "to terrorize others into compliance with the law". The closest was Haakon1 who thought sending a message using punishment as a warning to others was unconstitutional. Everybody else seemed to just be saying this was to punish and send a message. Bold added above You keep saying that even though the penalties are more than losses and are by definition punishment and deterrence these settlements are not sending a message because these individuals are not prosecuted more than others under the same laws. I keep saying there is a message, Congress authorized one in every prosecuted infringer case and WotC took them up on it with prosecuting $225,000 in settlement awards by targeting these defendants under these laws. [/QUOTE]

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