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Originally Posted by kacir
Yes. In quite a few jurisdictions.
If you make *distributing* illegal, then there will not be means to *acquire* unauthorized copy.
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Sure there will. From people willing to break the law. Of which there seem to be plenty.
I'm rather fascinated with this concept... that whatever lawbreaking is done in distributing unauthorized copies, the receivers of those copies have no liability for damages, no responsibility to give them up. (If that's the case, certainly someone should file suit against Amazon, demanding the return of the purchased Rand books. I don't expect it'd succeed, but it should make several lawyers very twitchy.)
It's a fascinating legal situation--an action shared by two people, of which only one is liable for penalties. Very Discordian.
I suppose it's comparable to situations where prostitution is illegal but soliciting is not. Hmmm.