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by sirclueless 5230 days ago
> it isn't illegal to own pirated music

IANAL, but it was always my impression that that owning and pirating music was illegal, but it was just that the lucrative civil damages suits come from targeting distributors. If Google Music becomes a central hosting platform, then subpoenaing them for information about customers with known contraband music might become trivial technically and therefore economically feasible.