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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
No one is going to send you to jail because of a pirated ebook.
While there may be lots of privacy concerns, I'm fairly confident there won't be any legal ramifications unless you've got child porn on your device.
So, while this may be worth noting, le'ts not turn this into an occasion for irrational fears, kthx.
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Oh good.
That's reassuring
.
While they might not send you to
jail for personal piracy of an ebook; if that evidence is admissible in court, it is trivial for them to release that information to a central dump where copyright trolls can fish for potential lawsuits (a la RIAA/MPAA). There's no confidentiality agreement there (no controls at all really if even a warrant is not required) even if no criminal activity is found.
The only question is, is it worth the while of the border agents to go that far? Given enough lobbying on the part of the publishing industry, sure it is. Heck, for the RIAA/MPAA, it
already is. While it is unlikely that a cursory inspection at the border will reveal pirated movies/music/ebooks, deep forensic scans can easily put you on the spot for several million dollars of liability (as calculated by the magical arithmetic they seem to use
).
Think about it - border agents have been given a no-holds-barred license to snoop at the border. Have you so much faith in human nature that you think this will only be used
reasonably and only when necessary with all due caution and courtesy? If that's an irrational fear, you may call me pi
.