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Reduce penalties for non-commercial copyright infringement and differentiate it from commercial infringement in the law

Created by J.B. on November 15, 2012

This is a request for differentiation in the law between "commercial" and "non-commercial" copyright infringement.

Fines for non-commercial infringement (P2P software, etc...) being applied are disproportionate to actual damages. Revisions need to be made to copyright laws, so that they cannot be abused against single mothers / college students sharing music.

Charging for a product shared for profit without the proper distribution rights makes sense (Disney shouldn't sell DVDs of HBO programs they don't own the rights to). However, there is no reason that a non-commercial distributor should be charged more than 10 times the cost of a product (shared intentionally or otherwise) and they definitely shouldn't be asked to pay $10,000 for a song costing $1. These laws require sanity checking.

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