Wow, this is scary. The technology that the pirates will develop to trade files unnoticed, combined with anonymous payment systems like Bitcoin, mean that people in the business of child abuse will have it even easier than they already do. It's great to criminalize college students sharing mix tapes or whatever, but the side effects are what's really frightening. (Also, if we're going to fine someone $1.3MM for sharing music, shouldn't we just kill them instead? Their life is ruined either way, but a quick and painless death seems much more humane than spending 60 years living in poverty as a slave to the recording industry.)
Won't someone please think of the children?
(Do we really want to start fighting a losing War On Sharing alongside our War On Drugs, War On Liquids-on-planes, and War on Afghanistan? Can society afford another losing war?)
> Their life is ruined either way, but a quick and painless death seems much more humane than spending 60 years living in poverty as a slave to the recording industry.
In general you cannot discharge fines and similar judgments through bankruptcy; at best you can potentially arrange to pay it over the course of the rest of your life.
Won't someone please think of the children?
(Do we really want to start fighting a losing War On Sharing alongside our War On Drugs, War On Liquids-on-planes, and War on Afghanistan? Can society afford another losing war?)