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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion by cess11 on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @08:42AM (#42387587)
One is payed to the state, the other to another person, as in one regulates the relation to the state, the other the relation to another person.
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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion by HPsquared on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @09:00AM (#42387740)
What's your view on statutory damages for copyright infringement? "Wilful infringement" has statutory damages up to $150k per work. This is similar. Like this it's a punishment imposed by the state, through the medium of inflated damages.
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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion by cess11 on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @09:11AM (#42387838)
No, I do not consider damages in copyright infringement a punishment. Whether damages are measured correctly or not in some case or other is beside the point I was making.
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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion by ada1981 on Thursday December 12, 2024 @09:50AM (#42399587)
I’m confused what you define a punishment as then.
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