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by dangrossman 5256 days ago
> your infringement does not have to be willfull AND you dont need to make money off of it to be charged with owning illegally obtained files

At this point it's clear that you haven't actually read the copyright law of your country. Merely having illegally obtained files is never criminal in the US. Not under USC Title 17 (our copyright act) or the amendments (NET Act of 1997) that weakened the requirements of the financial gain clause. Without these elements, "owning illegally obtained files" is a civil matter only. A federal prosecutor has nothing to charge you with.

Why waste peoples' time debating law when you don't know what the law is?