@Professor Chaos posted:Just a little correction there Arnold - receiving illegally made copies cannot give rise to liability for receiving stolen property. (The Supreme Court held so in 1985, Dowling v. United States). Intellectual property and tangible property are not the same entity in the eyes of the law.
In fact, the act of purchasing a pirated copy is not itself copyright infringement, since only the person who made or sold the illegal copy is violating the right of reproduction or distribution. However, reselling the illegal copy would violate the right of distribution.
All of course tangential to the point at hand.
Well...hold it there "Chaos"....you didn't read my statement carefully. I SAID, if one KNOWINGLY purchases stolen product then one can be charged with theft by receiving....totally different than what you are talking about.
