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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Canada also punishes people for copyright infringement that hasn't even happened. Interesting place, that. However, I believe the returns in question were required of retailers who had gotten early shipments, not individuals, and telling people not to read their books was toothless; they didn't send goons to anyone's houses to take their books away.
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The ruling about not reading the book, and being required to return it, applied to individual purchasers, and many did return the book, although obviously the chance of being penalised for not doing so was vanishingly small.