Re:Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?'
by mathetic on Thursday December 11, 2014 @01:03PM
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> I haven't seen any evidence that there isn't _any_ economic damage done by illegal downloading.
Burden of proof is on the accuser and no I don't think X number of people pirated it, it costs $Y, therefore, it caused $X * Y is a proof.
> it could have just been
Exactly. But don't you think it seems quite unlikely given that he is demonstrably a pretty smart individual and large corporations with deep pockets are coming after him. He should have completely failed to anticipate the consequences.
I'm not sure which side of this I'm on, to be honest, but I haven't seen any evidence that there isn't _any_ economic damage done by illegal downloading.
> Sunde went to prison on his own for what he believed was right
This may be true, but it's not like this wasn't a winning venture for him. At a certain point, it could have just been a question of whether he was willing to gamble that he'd gain millions of dollars rather than get locked up.