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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
If you are in possession of stolen property, it is stolen property. From the legal perspective, it may matter whether you knew it was stolen when you got it, if someone presses charges against you for having it.
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I do not believe it is stolen property. The crime is copyright infringement if any and the property laws and concept of theft is not applicable. But the question was that if it is legal to download (assume that downloading anything is legal) can it then be illegal to have the material?
There are a lot of material that is distributed and people distributing it thinks it is legal to do this. So I think it is an interersting question about what holds if it is later shown that it was not legal to ditribute the material.