Get serious yourself. That is truly ridiculous. Who pays for your company? Sony? MPIA?
I was stabbed in the heart 30 years ago. That man was put in jail for a few years. That is serious.
What you are saying is so far from serious that I can’t pay any attention to anything else you say.

Serious crime? What about the law suit against the record industry by the many recording artists that are NOT getting paid for their work by the same people that are pouncing on people downloading music? Did you report on that and call the recording industry “Serious Criminals”? The recording industry has already acknowledged 50 MILLION dollars owed to these recording artists, and one figure I have heard says the amount owed may reach up to 6 BILLION dollars. I don’t know this first hand but google it and see.

From what I heard, Recording companies have been releasing “compilation albums” including 1 song from many different artists.. and then listing the royalties for the use and sale of this song as some kind of a “debt” owed to the artists. The trouble was they never got around to paying these “debts”.. .but they had plenty of money to spend to hire lawyers to sue individual users who downloaded a few songs. Talk about hypocrisy…

How can you be so blind as to the misdeeds of the recording industry (and I am sure equal problems with motion picture studios) and call a single person downloading a single movie as a “Serious Criminal”? Get Real. Be sure and call the jay walkers of the world “serious criminals” and make sure they are fined $250 for each time they have jay walked… and be sure to count them all up together so you can fine them $20,000 and ruin their lives.