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Key Point #1: There is some degree of risk when using peer to peer even if it is legitimate use. This is due to some lack of technical knowledge and a level of corruption, and over regulation in many countries.<big><big>Do not download or share copyright material online</big></big> Key Point #1: There is some degree of risk when using peer to peer even if it is legitimate use. This is due to some lack of technical knowledge and a level of corruption, and over regulation in government. The major copyright holders are wealthy and powerful, and have in recent history influenced lawmakers into overreaching regulation that can place legitimate users at risk as well as violators. "''The more you widen the net, the more dolphins get caught in with the tuna.''"People face civil liability if caught exchanging copyright protected material, such as a motion picture. There seems to be nearly no criminal prosecution for this activity, for the individual, with the exception of those hosting quantity or deriving revenue by hosting for facilitating the activity. Individuals caught tend to be sued and settle for fines between $500 and $5000 according to sources (2012). Although there is risk when downloading, there seems to be more risk when uploading, as in sharing. Quite seriously, you are no more safe from a law suite by any measure less than completely disconnecting yourself from the Internet. Exaggeration? Technically, no. Practically, yes. However, the best defense is having no Internet connection where you are being accused of a copyright infringement involving your online activity. The degree of risk increases as does your online activity. Innocent web surfing, and stumbling onto a youtube video embedded into someone's myspace page can result in you conducting an infringement, however, the probability of legal action is fractionally small. As activity increases, and disregard, risk increases, until an individual gets caught for openly sharing a new release motion picture on his personal homepage as a direct ftp download from his own account, which would increase the probability of getting caught to almost certainty. It is a spectrum of risk and probability. == practical legal consequences == <big>People face civil liability if caught exchanging copyright protected material, such as a motion picture. There seems to be nearly no criminal prosecution for this activity</big>, for the individual, with the exception of those hosting quantity or deriving revenue by hosting for facilitating the activity. <big>Individuals caught tend to be sued and settle for fines between $500 and $5000</big> according to sources (2012). Although there is risk when downloading, <big>there seems to be more risk when uploading, as in sharing.</big>