{"id":1108,"date":"2009-08-24T11:38:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T16:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bspcn.com\/2009\/08\/24\/7-crimes-that-will-get-you-a-smaller-fine-than-file-sharing\/"},"modified":"2009-08-24T11:38:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T16:38:05","slug":"7-crimes-that-will-get-you-a-smaller-fine-than-file-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/24\/7-crimes-that-will-get-you-a-smaller-fine-than-file-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Crimes That Will Get You a Smaller Fine than File-Sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefixmag.com\/news\/seven-crimes-that-will-get-you-a-smaller-fine-than\/32033\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Winistorfer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_MsZb8mYFoCs\/SpLBt0YGc1I\/AAAAAAAAIrw\/vec6ixhymb8\/s800\/Hamburgular-757579_jpg_200x269_q85.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thinking about file-sharing? Don&#8217;t. You&#8217;ll get fined, and crime doesn&#8217;t pay (unless you rob banks and\/or armored cars, then it pays very well). Take it from Jammie Thomas, who was fined $2 million for downloading 24 songs, or anyone else who tried to fight the RIAA.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, try another crime, because plenty of them draw far lighter penalties than downloading Jason Mraz&#8217;s latest. Thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/gapersblock.com\/mechanics\/2009\/08\/17\/seven-crimes-to-consider-befor\/\">Mechanics blog at Gapers Block<\/a>, here are seven crimes that will get you smaller fines than file-sharing:<\/p>\n<p>1. Child abduction: the fine is only like $25000.<\/p>\n<p>2. Stealing the actual CD: the fine is $2,500<\/p>\n<p>3. Rob your neighbor: the fine is $375,000<\/p>\n<p>4. Burn a house down: The fine is just over $375,000<\/p>\n<p>5. Stalk someone: The fine is $175,000<\/p>\n<p>6. Start a dogfighting ring: the fine is $50,000<\/p>\n<p>7. Murder someone: The maximum penalty is only $25,000 and 15 years in jail, and depending on your yearly salary, would probably be far slighter a penalty that $2 million.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, murdering someone will result in a lighter overall penalty than downloading a bunch of songs and getting caught. Granted, you don&#8217;t get shivved in the showers at home, but still. [via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyswarm.com\">Daily Swarm<\/a>]&#160;&#160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Andrew Winistorfer Thinking about file-sharing? Don&#8217;t. You&#8217;ll get fined, and crime doesn&#8217;t pay (unless you rob banks and\/or armored cars, then it pays very well). Take it from Jammie Thomas, who was fined $2 million for downloading 24 songs, or anyone else who tried to fight the RIAA. Instead, try another crime, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}