Should Punishments For Piracy Scale To The Quality Of The Copy?

Should the punishment for piracy scale depending on the quality of the copy? I'm not even sure how to comment on something like this. Seriously, a sliding scale depending on the quality of the rip?

The judge said that since he could not assess the quality of the movies being offered via EliteBits, he found it difficult to know how much compensation to award the movie companies. The implication was that rightsholders should get less money if the product was low quality – cammed movies for instance – but lawyers for the plaintiffs disagreed. They said that rightholders lose goodwill when films are distributed in poor quality so the compensation should be more.

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