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Originally Posted by calvin-c
This is an argument used by collectors of child pornography-yet they do get caught. Often it's by tracking the purchase/downloading of something illegal-but other times it's simply 'run across' by somebody checking their hard drive. Often a tech. I'll grant that a tech would have no way of knowing whether or not you'd already sold the books found still on your drive-but it'd be enough to raise suspicions & possibly get a warrant to seize your computer.
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1st. A tech has no business checking the files on your hard drive when repairing a computer. There is no need than going any further than the BIOS to see if a hard drive works, and no need to do anything besides booting the computer to the desktop.
2nd. If I need to bring my computer in to have it repaired (which will normally only happen with a notebook, as I build my workstations myself), then it'll go in with a completely formatted hard drive. If need be, I'll take the drive out of the computer and wipe it using another.
3rd. Even if he does and finds books there, he can't know if you actually bought them, so informing authorities would be done purely on a hunch. Most techs wouldn't even do it. They might with stuff such as child pornography.