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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I take no issues with "un-prosecutable." 
Sure there are scenarios that question and stretch current jurisprudence; I understand that. All I'm trying to say is that Joe Schmoe—who downloaded a pirated ebook simply because he wanted to read it without paying for it—has no fair use exemption coming to him. Whether he ever gets prosecuted for it or not. |
But I do believe that it actually is legal to download pirated material in some areas and possibly in American because of the nuance of the way the law is written.
Now, they'd probably try to get you one way or another for possession of same. But if, say, Rowling's lawyers download Sorcerer's Stone and open it up and it's King's The Cell and they destroy the file, they've not -- I don't THINK -- broken a law in America.
IANAL, though, and I think too much of this thread is Fallacy By What Makes Sense To Me so there's that.