TommyGunn said:
Forgot to update, but yeah he offered to pay. Managed to talk them down to $600 some as well. I just kind of feel bad for it after he was here as a favor.
Don't feel bad, this is really no different from a "friend" offering to house sit and then throwing an open house party which trashes the house - Bueller's Day Off. Surely this is not the first time he pirated music/videos. He was probably thinking, ok, this is probably the first time from this IP address, it will be overlooked. The fact is, tracking pirated music/video in the US is big business. Whatever your friend down loaded most likely could have been bought from Amazon for 1/10 the fine. These companies that track "illegal" downloads are raking in the money.You either pay or they jugulate you in lawsuits. Yup, the land of the free.