Until the passage of the Piracy and Counterfeiting Amendments Act in 1982, a first-time charge of copyright infringement was merely a misdemeanor charge, federal prosecutors being unlikely in pursuing criminal copyright infringers, while offenders were subject to relatively small penalties.
charge, federal prosecutors being unlikely in pursuing criminal copyright infringers, while offenders were
charge, with federal prosecutors who were unlikely to pursue criminal copyright infringers, offenders being
charge, federal prosecutors unlikely to pursue criminal copyright infringers, while offenders were
charge; therefore, federal prosecutors were unlikely in pursuing criminal copyright infringers and offenders being
charge; therefore, federal prosecutors were unlikely to pursue criminal copyright infringers, and offenders were
the issue here is not just lack of parallelism; there are actually errors in those options.
• B has a modifier. that's nonsense, because those are two completely separate observations. (the fact that penalties were light does not modify [= describe] the prosecutors' general unwillingness to pursue offenders.)
• in A and C, "while" indicates contrast, but there's no contrast here.
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