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Originally Posted by Harmon
So then we got the copyright laws, which addressed pirated books, and in some sense turned them into stolen objects, but not entirely. It was still not illegal to merely possess a pirated volume, in the sense that you could not be arrested or fined for having one. But I believe that a pirated volume could be repossessed from the person who possessed it, by the author or legitimate publisher, working through the courts.
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How does repossessing a digital file work? Scan the computer & tablet & reader & external drive & etc. of the person who possessed it and remove it? And hope that they don't have an USB stick somewhere?