> while the rest of us are prosecuted as harshly as possible if caught

But this is just a lie.

Approximately nobody is prosecuted for copyright infringement.

Okay but people have had their lives ruined deliberately by media companies over it. I'm sure you knew what they meant.

No matter how generously you want to interpret it, it’s obviously false.

We’re moving the goalposts from the government systematically targeting normal people “if caught”, to only a handful of civil cases.

	▲	eggsome 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, as a percentage it's very rare - but some people have died as a result: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz I think most would agree that cases like that act as a deterrent?