{"id":6655,"date":"2010-04-17T23:22:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T06:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/04\/seven-crimes-that-will-get-you-a-smaller-fine-than-file-sharing\/"},"modified":"2010-04-17T23:22:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T06:22:46","slug":"seven-crimes-that-will-get-you-a-smaller-fine-than-file-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/04\/seven-crimes-that-will-get-you-a-smaller-fine-than-file-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Crimes That Will Get You a Smaller Fine than File-Sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.prefixmag.com\/news\/seven-crimes-that-will-get-you-a-smaller-fine-than\/32033\/\"><p>\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2010\/04\/Hamburgular-757579_jpg_200x269_q85.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"190\" alt=\"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 Mechanics blog at Gapers Block, 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>[From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefixmag.com\/news\/seven-crimes-that-will-get-you-a-smaller-fine-than\/32033\/\" ><cite>Seven Crimes That Will Get You a Smaller Fine than File-Sharing<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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. Instead, try another crime, because plenty of them draw &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/04\/seven-crimes-that-will-get-you-a-smaller-fine-than-file-sharing\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seven Crimes That Will Get You a Smaller Fine than File-Sharing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1Jl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}