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Originally Posted by candyflip
Yes.
And I am not against going after people. I am against mass sending of settlement letters to someone they can't even name demanding thousands of dollars for something that has a retail value no where near the amount asked.
In one of the articles I read on the topic, John Stigliano had mentioned that he was unaware of them asking for upwards of $1000 in his name. He had been made out to think they were asking for a reasonable settlement of around $50 - 100.
You want people to back your idea, why go about it in such a scummy way?
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I agree with this statement 110%.
If they want to sue the DOWNLOADER then they should be sueing that person for the cost of 1 or 2 months membership to their site at most.
If they want to sue the person who STOLE the content and UPLOADED it and made it available to millions of people for free, then sue that fucker for thousands of dollars.
To sue the downloader for anything more than a couple months membership price is total bullshit IMO and I do think it is greed and blackmail at that point since there is ZERO justification to sue them for more since all the download did was not pay for it, they didn't cause any damages like the uploader did.