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What's the cutoff? Is it a 50/50 thing? If my site makes 10% of it's revenue from pirates, should I go to jail? Google makes plenty of money from sites that host counterfeit goods and copyrighted material, should Larry Page go to jail?

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Does your business completely revolve around profiting from the illegal distribution of copyrighted works?

Did theirs? Can real numbers be shown of the money that was generated by piracy with this service vs money that was not?

My guess is from this point we will never know the real unbiased numbers, not matter who wins.

Edit: to clarify tone.

My guess is that we'll be shown fairly conclusive internal communication that makes it clear the MU knew exactly that they were profiting illegally and continued to do it and enable it. At that point it doesn't matter exactly how much they made legally or illegally. Does it matter that a pawn shop makes some money legitimately if it's basically a front for selling stolen property?

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