[LINK] On-the-spot copyright fines only for illegal traders?

[Jan Whitaker]

At 01:04 PM 16/11/2006, Craig Sanders wrote:
>so, why do multi-billion dollar businesses like record companies get the
>public to pay for their civil cases when the public can't?

No case needed. On the spot fines don't come to court unless the 
individual have deep enough pockets to do it.

Think revenue raising. Fines go to the government, not the copyright owner.

Can someone shoot holes in this argument?

Jan


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