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I think most of us believe the penalties for copyright infringement should fit the crime. $150,000 per shared file should be reserved for crooks that are sharing thousands of files for profit. Ruining a college student's life with a $675,000 judgment for 30 songs is just wrong.
This summer the U.S. Government’s Internet Policy Task Force published a Green Paper signaling various copyright issues that need to be addressed. Among other things, the group proposed a “recalibration” of penalties for file-sharers, which currently reach $150,000 per shared file. The MPAA and RIAA, among others, have now responded to this suggestion, stating that the current punishments are proportional, and needed to deter others from file-sharing and related offenses.