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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zogmo" data-source="post: 4291470" data-attributes="member: 17682">Whatever someone's OPINION may be about this subject, here is the facts  of life when it comes to this kind of thing in a court of law.It's stolen material. Physical copy or digital copy doesn't matter when it comes to the law. You could by law be busted for possession of stolen goods.  Even if you owned store bought movies but they found bootlegged versions of those movies at your place you would be busted for possession of stolen goods.  Just because you have a legit copy doesn't make the bootleg any less illegal. The original bootleggers would use that as an argument in court and walk free every time if they only had to have purchased one copy legally.  Will you get busted? You just never know.  Though they don't tend to go after one guy at a time with this stuff. They do huge sting/sweeps catching large quantities of people in their net when it takes place usually because the "source" gets busted and if they have an IP record on their computers that you downloaded a copy you may very well one day years from now get a summons to go to court.  They will investigate you because even if you only had one digital copy you may have been reproducing huge quantities to sell from that one copy you got.  You just never know.I speak from first hand knowledge of a friend/coworker of mine.  He only had a few digital copies of some material he downloaded from a popular website but that was enough to include him in a "sweep" because they had to make sure he wasn't a distributor.  He wasn't, but the public embarrassment, legal fees and disruption of his family life were not good at all.  And it went on for about two years total with a stern warning that they would be keeping an eye out for him.  No jail time because he was just downloading but it really really isn't worth the risk from my perspective.The point is, you just never know.  Anyone who says they know should talk to my friend Erik.  He knows.</blockquote>

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