It occurs to me the relief (in the legal sense) also follows from this distinction. The relief ought to be "Destroy the illegal copies", not "garnish the cash from the sale".
I think that's the reason it caught my eye; the latter is approximately what the RIAA is trying to do -- earn money from a (putatively lost) sale, rather than simply deleting some files...
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I think that's the reason it caught my eye; the latter is approximately what the RIAA is trying to do -- earn money from a (putatively lost) sale, rather than simply deleting some files...