(1) In general. — Any person who willfully infringes a copyright shall be punished as provided under section 2319 of title 18, if the infringement was committed —
(A) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain;
(B) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000; or
(C) by the distribution of a work being prepared for commercial distribution, by making it available on a computer network accessible to members of the public, if such person knew or should have known that the work was intended for commercial distribution.
I shoplifted a Snickers bar when I was 16, to see if I could do it. Never did it again unless you count discovering I hadn’t paid for some razor blades when I got home from the supermarket and not declaring it.
I pilfered from the gas station I worked in as an adolescent.
During my adulthood I have indulged in a small amount of narcotics, and have broken many driving laws.
And I was arrested in Singapore for trespassing on military property.
I’d have expected you to have put all the fractions of pennies that get calculated on each account in daily interest, and funnelled them all into your own account.
Once, I stole my neighbor’s pillowcase off her clothesline to wrap it up for her birthday party that night.
Another time on Halloween, the neighbor whose pillow case I stole and I TPd another neighbor’s house.
I routinely forge my husband’s name on the back of checks.
Once, we were building a fire and ran out of firewood so we stole some from my neighbor’s woodpile. We replaced it later but we didn’t ask permission first.
I have a few pens at my house that look an awful lot like the pens we have at work.
I’ve never been in jail but that’s only because I wasn’t caught. I guess the worst thing I ever did was to steal a few cars but I’m not saying where or when.
I have not been convicted of any felonies, but I was arrested under a felony statute for something I did indeed do. During processing I was charged with a lower flavor of the same crime (a misdemeanor) which in turn was disposed of as “adjourned in contemplation of dismissal” and I stayed out of trouble and the charges were later dismissed. What I did indeed do was as a college student I went to the Mac labs (back in the days of toaster shaped Macs and operating systems on 800K floppies) and designed a replica of the current year’s NYS Inspection sticker and printed it out on the laser printer, used a Hi-Liter marker to make the relevant part of it have the right color, then taped it into my window.
Why (the explanation that isn’t an excuse): vandals had destroyed prior means of transportation by bashing in back window of car with baseball bat; a colleague GAVE me a car but could not sign the reg over to me because he had never turned in the reg which had been in his ex-wife’s name; he had that one in his possession with HER name signed on the back but it would be weeks before NYS DOT processed it and provided him with one so he could genuinely sign car over to me; and in the mean time the inspex sticker had expired and I couldn’t get it inspected until I had a current reg. And I needed to get to campus daily, now, not weeks from now.
What: felony forgery (yowza! as in, same as running off my own $100 bills in the basement! :eek: ) reduced to possession of a forged instrument.
OTHER
Less seriously (and less apologetically) I’ve been busted multiple times for criminal trespass, once or twice for breaking and entering or burglary later dropped to crim trespass, all for politically motivated activities, being places I wasn’t officially supposed to be. And…
Does speeding count if it’s defined as “reckless endangerment with aggravating circumstances”? …hypothetically speaking.
Do we count felonies that you were convicted of, but sentencing wasn’t done? It’s a legal oddity in self-defense cases here… you’re actually found guilty, but as it’s self-defense, there’ are no consequences from that.
Oh, and do we count things that are legal… by some definitions, but could be interpreted as illegal? You know, like not paying taxes (much)?
I had to take the second option because when I was three or four I stole a tube of Chapstick at a drug store and in the car immediately got caught by my mom (because I asked her to, um, open it) and then marched back in to apologize. That’s the only bad illegal non-traffic thing I’ve ever done as far as I can think.
I stole a few things when I was about eleven or twelve. It was a short-lived phase. I answered accordingly. It didn’t occur to me until I read the thread that I’ve also illegally downloaded music. So, count that if you like.
If you want to be technical, I have committed multiple felonies. Since the California Penal Code at the time defined Burglary as “Entering any building, structure, etc. with the intent to commit Grand Theft, Petite Theft or any felony…” every time I went over to my girlfriend’s house when her parents weren’t home, with the intent of getting lucky, when I was 18 and she wasn’t…
Forget the sex crimes. I’d be doing multiple life sentences just on the burglary charges!
I don’t think I’ve ever committed a crime, outside of the traffic violations and recreational drug use excluded from the OP. (And the recreational drug use would just be a very few underage drinks.) It’s possible that I may have violated copyright laws by photocopying too big a chunk of a document, but I’m not sure.
Do you remember those candy bins they used to have a Walgreens, where you could put $.25 in a little locked box and take three pieces of candy? During the early years of unsupervised shopping trips, my friend would take candy after only putting in a nickle! I’d always go back later and add twenty cents.
Add to my previous all the times I committed multiple felonies in states where anything but married, in bed, lights out, man on top, get it over with quick procreative sex was outlawed.
