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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
The buyer is not at fault, but did not "legally buy and own" the content.
Let's say I rip a DVD, duplicate the cover, go out on the street and sell it. You, as the buyer, assume it's used, and that the transaction is 100% legit. You may have done the purchase in good faith, and the mechanisms of the purchase may have been completely legal, but it's still not a legal transaction.
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Yes, that is a legal transaction. You are confusing selling stolen property with unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material. They are completely different things.
In your example, the buyer legally owns the DVD and the seller is guilty of copyright infringement.
If you had stolen a physical item and then tried to sell it, then the sale would not be legal and "possession of stolen goods" would apply. That is not the case with copyright infringement. Stolen property and copyright infringement are totally different.