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Originally posted by Hootie
A girl in my speech class did a speech on this earlier in the semester and what I took from her speech is that since there are SO many people file transfering it's hard to go after every single person...so what the industry is doing is going after the people doing HUGE amounts of transfering. She reported that it's almost like a random thing however so you can't be safe. I usually try to keep the amount of songs I download to a minimal and frequently delete songs after I've a) grown sick of listening to them or b) burned them onto a CD.
So I suppose if you're only downloading in small, irregular amounts they'll overlook you for someone who's downloading a lot. I could be wrong though.
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The impression I've been given is that they really couldn't care about you downloading, it's the sharing that gets them. I think their theory is that with enough threats eventually people will stop sharing, which will stop the downloading. I know we only got complaints about sharing, not downloading, and unless the companies themselves are putting up MP3s and movies, there is no way for them to tell who is downloading, whereas they can obviously see who is sharing.
We have had people busted with HUGE amounts of files...over 1000 shared, and who knows how many more that they didn't catch.
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