>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.
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.