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So if someone steals a car, then gives you it, it's fine?

(I'm just talking morally, not legally).




So if someone makes a copy of a car, and gives it to you, it's not fine?


That wasn't my point. My point was, that if someone commits a crime, and then "gives" you the product of that crime, it doesn't mean you're innocent if you knew a crime was committed.

If someone breaks in to Google and steals some trade secrets, copies them to a memory-stick, and gives them to you, etc

I should have known better to compare stealing music to stealing cars ;)




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