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lol no, nobody is in jail for ripping their stuff or even straight up torrenting it.
If it doesn't bother you that you are threatened with jail over something you might do with your own property, in your own home, without affecting others, then... Well, I can see that you would be living a very jolly life indeed. Good on ya.
If you live in America you're threatened with jail every time you go into public. The average person unknowingly breaks 3 federal laws a day, and an avalanche of state and local violations. And these are almost all selectively enforced.
Outright innocence is not enough to escape the brutality of detention.
Hah! Yeah, that's so weird when seen from my culture (Germany). Here, prosecutors must enforce all laws on the books. Anything less would be a criminal offense. The actual day-to-day problems are very similar, though. It is kinda infuriating that the English system works as well as it does.