Reply #218: The vast, overwhelming majority of people "caught" settle out of court. [View All]

[joshcryer]

The people who do not settle are the ones who get the big fines. If everyone refused to settle you'd see a lot more of those "high profile cases." Particularly because the people who did not settle lost in court, setting precedent for someone paying tens of thousands of dollars for a few dozen songs.

I don't share files therefore I do nothing illegal. The most that could happen to me is for my bootlegs to be confiscated or deleted (I don't use CDs/DVDs anymore, hard drives are cheaper, so "format D:" pow, done, gone).

You'll note that copyright infringement is not the fault of the person receiving but the person illegally distributing without permission. The person receiving can always claim that they thought the person distributing had the right to do so and no court on the planet would be able to prove otherwise.