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How come if you download a song off the internet you can get a $50 000 fine but if you are a CEO of the bank that has been involved in serious corruption in New York - you don't go jail at all?

I refer to the case of the death of Aaron Swartz



where he was facing a potential 30 years in jail for distributing copyright free educational material of MIT that came from JSTOR's unlimited access of both free and made-free content.

High street banks are constantly involved with billion dollar frauds and even laundering drug money - yet what happens is a person pays a fine (effectively bribe) and nothing happens.

Does this not concern US citizens?
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tynamite
tynamite's avatar Because the law is whichever person it is operating it. It's a pack of lions.
I could have gone to prison 3 times this year, but never did.
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