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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Customs doesn't give a damn about pirated ebooks. Child porn yes, counterfeit goods yes, illegal drugs yes. Harry Potter ebooks? Please.
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There's a deeper issue here. They'll probably won't do a lot if you have a pirated copy of a book. But in the mean time you don't have access to your property, which can cause you distress. It could contain sensitive data, or data you need the next day (because of that meeting which caused you to travel across the border).
I get the feeling (as an outsider) that the US is more and more the country of a paranoid government who, despite their words, think that everybody is guilty unless proven innocent.