If there are laws against buying of goods you know are stolen, then of course you are correct. However, if that's not in place, then the buyer didn't violate any laws (since he didn't break the copyright) or contracts.
To circle back to the original point, wouldn't it be kind of outrageous if a police team were allowed to storm your home and violate your right to privacy in search for an illegal copy of 1984?
>wouldn't it be kind of outrageous if a police team were allowed to storm your home and violate your right to privacy in search for an illegal copy of 1984?
No more outrageous than if they were taking a copy of a DVD that you'd acquired that was produced by copyright infringement.
I think the police (in my country) do have power to retrieve goods on order of the court because you've committed a tort, contributory copyright infringement. If you were aware that you were supporting an act of infringement by paying for the goods produced by that act then I'd expect you could also be sued successfully.
The economics don't work well for the company suing though so this is an unlikely reality.
In my opinion, not really, not if they have reasonable suspicion. I mean, it'd be a complete waste of their time and yours due to the low value of the object in question, but I don't know that low value should mean they shouldn't be able to.
That is, of course, just my opinion. I do not claim that reflects local laws.
To circle back to the original point, wouldn't it be kind of outrageous if a police team were allowed to storm your home and violate your right to privacy in search for an illegal copy of 1984?