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US Court Gives 15 Months' Jail, $415,900 Fine For Game Piracy
An anonymous reader writes "A Florida man has been sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay US$415,900 in restitution for selling video game systems that were preloaded with more than 75 pirated copies of games." If that fine sounds a bit steep, note that his profits on the devices "exceeded $390,000."
Seriously, fine the man, put him on probation with a suspended sentence before sending him to prison for an utterly victimless crime.
Excuse me, sir, but this wasn't a "victimless crime". I was credited for Additional Audio Programming on NES Slalom, and the $0.0000015 I have been denied from this man's activities puts an immeasurable strain on my personal finances. Have you noticed the economy we're in?
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Um, if you buy something for 10$ and sell it for 20$, that's 100% profit, no?
I think you got the words, but you missed the tone.
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You assume wrong smart arse.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Indeed, who would pay for an aggregation of otherwise free software?
You never heard of Linux?
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest