Re:Meet the Fockers? (Score 2, Interesting)

I might well be mistaken, but I think if his assertion that he owns the DVD was true BEFORE any alleged download occurred, then it removes any wrongdoing from him. Let me explain: The only laws I can think of at work here apply are the DMCA (that is, to have a movie in a downloadable form, one would first have to "circumvent a protection device" by breaking CSS) and laws regarding distribution/sale of copyrighted material without consent. One could certainly make the case the the person who OFFERED the movie for download likely did both of those things, it seems that someone who owns the movie on DVD might well have done neither, irrespective of whether the alleged download even occurred.