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Originally Posted by sortran
Not to beat a dead horse --but I believe copyright infringement of that level would be a civil suit so police wouldn't be involved especially not to the degree of confiscating his computer equipment unless there was something criminal i.e fraud. Whole thing doesn't add up.
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I disagree with this 100%, and I have several law enforcement very close in family...
If someone is distributing torrents on mass scale, more than likely they WOULD confiscate computers before giving any kind of "notice". If they gave notice you could just get rid of everything...
The police really aren't as dumb as they are made out to be. There are divisions that deal particularly with this type of stuff.
and not 100% sure, but I believe stealing software is a criminal activity (jail)...checking now...
...and didn't really find, but ref to prison time (up to two years)
prison for software copyright conviction - Page 1
I'm not a lawyer nor do I care about the law, so I don't know what "civil" jibber jabber is, but I'm thinking you don't either
just an FYI to people, that imho, you shouldn't try to make yourselves feel better and toss this off as being a scam. as much as we all want to... it's better to be on the safe side and assume this did happen ...or could be a very real possibility.. (and I think it really could if you are doing this full time)