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Sweet sanity: 75% of Americans say infringement files should be under $100.

Now we need the politicians to listen to those that they work for.

Sweet sanity: 75% of Americans say infringement fines should be under $100 http://t.co/ftKhPLNA Now to get the message to Politicians

Frankly, when you can legitimately pay $7.50 a month for access to millions of tracks, the current statutory fine – up to $150,000 per instance – are way out of balance.  There are far worse things you can do – criminal acts – that incur less of a penalty.

Actually, one third of the respondents thought there should be no fine for what 70% of people apparently are already doing: downloading content that isn’t licensed to them.