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So your position is that it is illegal for me to watch a movie on Netflix that they don't have the rights to? Just that I wouldn't be prosecuted because I didn't intend to break the law? Unless perhaps I knew they didn't have the rights to it but watched it anyway?

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That the judge will say you did not break the law because you reasonably believed you were following the law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea

Copyright infringement is a strict liability offence, so not having intent isn't a defense.

However, in this scenario you'd very likely have a good "innocent infringement" defense, which would allow the judge to lower the statutory damages to as low as $200. Since the damages available are so low it wouldn't be worth suing over.

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