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[Raelynn]

I don't think it matters if it has been released or not. You also say that just "owning" it is illegal (from a copyright point of view). Could you please find some reference to were in the copyright law it states so! And what country you refer to. I am not aware of any such, although I admitadly don't know every copyright law of the world.
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Own is a bad word. I really meant something along the lines of possess, because the material is never really owned by anyone except the copyright holder.

I'm not sure of the charge that can be put against you, but in America, possessing unreleased material is illegal. I think it's similar to getting a moving violation ticket if you parallel park on the left side of a two way street here. You may not be parking illegally, but you had to cross to the the wrong side of the road to park that way.

Since the material has not been released at all in any legal capacity, possessing it means you had to come across it through illegal means.