What’s More Of A Crime?

This is interesting… It seems that it’s more of a crime to download a movie than it is to steal it from a store…

Off The Shelf — Website by Now Interactive Solutions
what I can tell, the penalties laid out for downloading one season of a TV show with BitTorrent are much harsher than if you actually stole a DVD set of the same show from a government store. I lay out a practical example in detail below, but to cut to the chase: For stealing the DVD you could face no more than up to 1 year imprisonment and up to a $100,000 fine; for downloading the same material you could face statutory damages of up to $3,300,000, costs and attorney’s fees (ie: the other guy’s attorneys), as well as up to 1 year imprisonment, and up to a $100,000 fine.