Money isn’t evil, humans are (although what constitutes evil is a subjective matter). I believe we are capable of most things given the right circumstances. Greed is pervasive because we live in a capitalistic society where the hording of wealth is actually encouraged.

It still staggers me though, that the entertainment industry considers offences of this sort as worse than actual physical harm and even murder/rape/whatever.

In fact, I read in one of Bill Bryson’s books that a friend of his was a victim of ‘wrong place, wrong time’ with a drugs issue, and was sentenced more severely than he would have been if he had murdered someone. It rings so similarly to those falsely accused of sharing music – money is truly evil stuff.

Of course, if the content industries had it there own way, people burning cd /dvds this way would have sentences more severe than murders and rapists. Lets consider the supposed crime for one moment…

They copied some digital content, and sold it on the black market ( or what ever you want to call it, ’street corner’ ?). To me, this seems like a minor moral infraction at worst. Yet, this seems to be considered as a hideous crime in our judicial systems; Why is that? My only conclusion is that the judicial systems are misaligned with the moral majority.

how is that showing its a burglary? a truck every two days? as much as i see that these people deserved to be arrested, that still isn’t burgulary i mean really. i run a business and i have a truck that comes up every 3 days. why would any crook rob the same house every two days?