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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
I'm not saying it's puppies and chocolate. Like I said, there are definitely some privacy issues. I'm only saying that rampant paranoia, exemplified by posts like yours, really aren't warranted.
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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I can't help it if you only read every 10th word and conclude "rampant paranoia". I explained exactly
how this could be abused and how easy it would be.
Also, I agreed that
customs might not give a damn about pirated ebooks or music or movies. However, they have the power to make unethically (but not illegally - that's the point of this story) obtained "evidence"
available to those who
would care - the holy trinity of the copyright mafia
. Why wouldn't customs agencies, especially upon failing to find something criminally incriminating after spending all those man-hours playing Nancy Drew,
not sell that ill-gotten information to those who might be able to make a civil case out of it? They already
sell all those items confiscated for security concerns. Why not sell banned information as well?
So, I'm just saying that those are all eminently possible and considering how the copyright lobby literally
writes legislation these days, more than probable. And uninformed and flippant dismissals of these concerns, exemplified by a post like yours, in a thread dealing exclusively with the issue, really isn't warranted.
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Originally Posted by SameOldStory
"Officer, you don't need me to give you the passwords to my computer files. Honest, they're just me personal files."
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These aren't the files you're looking for.