Sure... he didn't make copies or let anyone look at them... Can some ONE say double standard? Maybe they are DRM protected? Or is that only for pesant's media
DRM is becoming quite common now in the business world. It's baked into Microsoft office in the form of Azure Information Protection (AIP). You set classification labels and it gets encrypted at the highest levels. Office automatically obtains the key if the person opening it has access. It's pretty nice actually. Wouldn't be surprised if the government uses it or something similar.