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Comment by ranger_danger | Hacker News Reader

Worth nothing that this wasn't some teenager who casually downloaded a movie and left it seeding overnight. They were stealing DVDs from the factory and ripping those, even selling them for profit, and people found enough evidence left behind to even get him arrested in the first place for it... so monumental levels of stupidity and provable intent are here.

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Nevertheless this seems a waste of resources for the feds to bust as long as there are many really dangerous criminals, doesn't it? Gangs terrorize the streets, corrupt politicians ruin the economy, foreign nation states operate huge covert operation networks but the feds rather hunt DVD rippers LOL

Why are chefs baking bread? There's buildings to construct.

If every book, video, and painting is ripped off and shared for free why would any sane person pay? Of course the feds are going to act to defend the big budget spectacles which distract us from the corrupt clown show that is our world.

> If every book, video, and painting is ripped off and shared for free why would any sane person pay?

What about games? Do you mean the people buying games on gog.com are insane? I already spent over a $1000 there although I technically could easily pirate almost any of their games. At the same time I don't buy anything from Steam because I hate DRM. And the only place where I often buy digital books is HumbleBudndle - also because DRM-free. If something is both cheap (or not so cheap but still possible to afford and visibly great value) and DRM-free I see no incentive to pirate it for anyone who is not extremely poor (so they wouldn't buy even if there was no option to pirate).

And he was doing it for movies that hadn't even been released yet.

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