Can you believe these people?
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That was covered earlier. There is no need to repeat that inanity. They actually wrote new law and then got legal precedent. Had they lost the first lawsuit they wouldn't have had a legal leg to stand on.Yep like music and movie copyrights
If it is on the books it can be enforced.
Repeating this phrase over and over doesn't make it correct.
If such were the case they could enforce those Jim Crow laws they refused to take off the books in some Southern States. Just "being on the books" is not good enough. Judges will also throw out some cases based on the phrase that I proffered to you "de facto decriminalization". You cannot selectively enforce legislation, de facto decriminalization is real.
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Yep like music and movie copyrights
If it is on the books it can be enforced.
Generally film and movie downloads over the internet are not "enforced". They are only "enforced" by the way of civil lawsuits. Which is sort of a dangerous precedent to set - they only do it because they can't prove beyond a shadow of a doubt, while in a civil suit all one has to do is prove it was more likely than not. Enforcing laws through civil suits without the burden of evidence required by criminal law is, IMHO, unconstitutional.
And who has been prosecuted for violating those laws?
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Nobody has. They have been sued, but not prosecuted. Civil and criminal law are two different animals.