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Originally Posted by Harper Kingsley
If someone busts into your house with a warrant and takes your computer and every other digital device and finds out that you have 40 gigs of ebooks and you make approximately $15,000 a year... some eyebrows are going to be raised considering there is currently no means to buy used ebooks. Therefore, the books are likely stolen.
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That's one hell of a leap.
Just how many gigs' worth of e-books is your mythical $15,000-a-year wage slave allowed to have? There's the vast library of books from Project Gutenberg and Manybooks and Munseys and here at MR, dozens of free books every day from Amazon and BN, thousands of indie books that are free or cost only a couple of bucks, vast numbers of non-Agency books in all price ranges with coupon codes, etc.
And a search warrant is not a license to go trolling through every aspect of a person's life.