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Judge Upholds $675K fine for Downloading, Sharing 30 Songs
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paritynews.com
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rmandalia
on Aug 24, 2012
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tokenizer
on Aug 24, 2012
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It costs roughly $30 dollars in Canada for a 12 song cd. If multiply that cost by 2.5 (for the 30 songs) you get $75. Let's say you consider 1000x for damages and that's still only 75,000 dollars! This is a crazy amount of money for a fine.
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