Quote -  quote:- "oh, yeah, watch out noobs, the big bad mean freebie providers are going to ge'cha and someday you'll be very sorry"

well the noob will be very very sorry ....

How will they be sorry? Someone is going to sue them or get on their case, what's gonna happen? What's the worst thing that'll happen? They'll be annoyed for a few days after they find out they eventually need to learn pay attention to copyrghts? Not exacly something I'd say 'that's dangerous, you'll be very sorry'. You say it like drunk driving, drugs and a noob being unfamiliar with copyrights are on the same level of danger.

Let's have a reality check here for a moment. Noone in their right mind is going to go after noobs making a few mistakes, heck, even if they downloaded and confused a hundred or so freebies in the initial downloading frenzy.  For one, noobs are not likely to make significant amount of money which means they're not likely to do much copyright damage.

By the time they get to the level of making a fair amount of money off their work, they'll learn about copyrights too.

Unless of course, you really think that freebie providers are so mean they'll go after a few poor noobs making a noobie mistake.

My point is that your worry about noobs is very much overblown compared to any realistic 'danger' they may be in. However, any noob that does have aspirations of commercial succes will have to learn a lot about copyrights. Much like anyone whom is a noob in a hobby they are are taking up is likely to make mistakes. By the time they do, they'll no longer be the noobs.

And even if a freebie provider catches a noob making a mistake, and decides to be a stinker and say something, the most they can do is send them a note saying, hey, you can't do that. Not exactly something dangerous. You make it sound like a freebie provider will come knocking on their door and knife them or some other dangerous consequence they'll be very sorry for.
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