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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Imagine if you bought a car that it turned out had been stolen. Technically, you are guilty of receiving stolen goods, but usually, you're just told to surrender the car. But if foreknowledge of the car's status is proven, you can be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Same thing for illegal e-books.
The reason it would be illegal to have the files is because they were "illegally created and illegally obtained," that is, created and downloaded without the copyright owner's permission. Again, ignorance of that status is considered no excuse, and I would be required to delete/surrender them or face prosecution.
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Could you point me to some text I can read to confirm this since there is also a claim here that it is not illegal. Why does it matter what you technically are guilty of? In Sweden we have some principle that you must have intention in most cases for it to be a crime. So exactly the same action can be illega (a crime) in one instace and legal in another instance.
Concerning stolen gods the laws until some years ago was that if you bought it in good faith it was your to keep. I think the have changed that so you have to surrender it now but i think you then can get compensation from your insurance company.