Yes; fines are the most common punishment.
I think you're asking what it is to download copyright-protected content. Copyright law gives the creator of a work certain exclusive rights. Among these are the right to copy, and the right to distribute. Uploading a work infringes the rightsholder's right to distribute the work, and downloading it infringes his right to copy it.
Too bloody right they are and the IOC goes after anyone who infringes the copyright
yes, people can be fined or even in some cases go to jail for copyright infringement
Ostensibly you would know which song is not your own original work.
It means that it's very hard to find someone who infringes a copyright where someone can take a work as a collection of bits and send it to someone else. If you have a book, and someone scans the book and OCRs it back into text, it is very difficult to find who is making copies and sending them out, or who has a copy. Most of the people caught were using systems where files could be tracked.
If you are the owner of a copyright you can sue someone who infringes upon your copyright. If you are not the owner, you can report the infringement to the person (or business) who is. The police will not investigate the crime, it can only be dealt with by litigation.
You can be fined, and in extreme cases, jailed.
Under current US copyright law the maximum "standard" fine for "willful and deliberate" copyright infringement can be as high as $150,000.00 USD.
The maximum fine for copyright infringement is $150,000.00 per incidence.
Yes, unless you have permission from the copyright holder of the original, or an exemption in the law. For example, if you are copying a work in order to learn a technique, that use should be defensible as fair.
Only if the elephant seal is attacking you or someone else then its fine but if not then yes you will get fined.
Copyrighted content is difficult to find on YouTube. Copyright owners are able to file a DMCA takedown notice to content that infringes their copyright on YouTube. Thus, it is unlikely that you'll find any full episodes of YuGiOh on the website.