Doing all this research into the law of copyright and piracy, and reading about cases in which people were sued for copyright infringement reminds me of my own brush with the law a few years back. I was an undergrad then, in my third year, working on an animation project for a class. Our assignment was to create a short 3D animation and since I had been used to working with 3D Studio Max (a modeling/animation program by Autodesk) I decided that I would pirate a copy of it to use on my laptop. I did so with relative ease and had the program up and running - the problem was that I hadn't removed it from my sharing queue in my torrent client and so I was basically uploading it to other users. Autodesk caught wind of this and immediately contacted Cox, my isp. Autodesk threatened to sue but luckily Cox has a policy in which they allow ask the subscriber about the problem. Without going into details, I got Cox to give me a second chance and avoided the lawsuit from Autodesk - a disaster I would not have been able to afford...or even survive. I found this interesting article while perusing for info on the RIAA. See the link below.
How Not To Get Sued For File-Sharing
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