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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
Yes, actually, it is illegal to pay someone for what you know to be stolen property regardless of whether or not they actually do give it to you in completion of the transaction.
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But giving a copy of the file is copyright infringement and theft and I saw that you wrote that it worked in a similar way in this case also. For me it is not obvious that it has to be so since people say that theft and copyright infringement is regulated by different types of laws (at least in Sweden, copyright infringement is not part of criminal law).
I have to check what holds in Sweden in this case. I have not heard about people being prosecuted for paying for things that they did not receive.