How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay

Re:How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay by pbhjpbhj on Thursday December 14, 2017 @12:11PM (#15924083)

Isn't the corollary to your position here that as I can only afford about £6 per month on media that any claim for a greater amount in a copyright infringement case is thus wrong.

Yes in the analogy the person will claim for the cost of replacing the vehicle.

But a company claiming they lost media revenue to me of anything greater than what I can afford is also wrong. In a world of perfect copyright infringement prevention I'd just miss out on most of the mainstream social culture.

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Re:How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay by icebraining on Thursday December 14, 2017 @02:07PM (#15925691)

Usually these companies attack uploaders (even if just due to regular p2p seeding) or, as in this case, people who run systems that "facilitate" infringement. The claim is not based on what you should have paid, but on all the money that the people who got a copy from you would have paid.

In a fair system they'd have to prove those damages, but alas, copyright laws often include "statutory damage" provisions to help them avoid that requirement.

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