GOP Senator Norm Coleman Seeks Lower Downloading Penalties
Guardian Unlimited:
Senator Seeks Lower Downloading Penalties
Way to go, Norm.
It's legally and economically absurd to hit casual individual copyright violators with the jaw-dropping statutory damages that were originally written into the law to deter large, for-profit organized crime piracy operations.
Here's a common-sense idea: for non-commercial copyright violations
by individuals, penalities ought to be limited to actual damages,
or some lowish multiple (2-5x) of same.
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