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Swedish Man Fined $650,000 For Sharing 1 Movie, Charged Extra For Low Quality
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/12/17/2346222/swedish-man-fined-650000-for-sharing-1-movie-charged-extra-for-low-quality?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feedA 28-year-old man in Sweden has been fined 4.3 million SEK (~650,000 USD) for uploading one movie. 300,000 SEK of that was added because of the upload's low technical quality (Google translation of Swedish original). The court ruled that the viewer watching the pirated version of the movie had a worse experience than people watching it legally, thereby causing damage to the movie's reputation (full judgement in Swedish).