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Re:20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tool... by crdrost on Thursday August 06, 2020 @06:40PM (#24076188)
IANAL and you should probably contact yours about such things but a straightforward reading suggests that because you knew you were downloading something likely illegally gotten, you are in fact on the hook for downloading it.

    “Misappropriation” means: 

      (i) acquisition of a trade secret of another by a person who knows or has
        reason to know that the trade secret was acquired by improper means; or
      (ii) disclosure or use of a trade secret of another without express or
        implied consent by a person who 
        (A) used improper means to acquire knowledge of the trade secret; or 
        (B) at the time of disclosure or use knew or had reason to know that
          his knowledge of the trade secret was 
          (I) derived from or through a person who has utilized improper means 
            to acquire it; 
          (II) acquired under circumstances giving rise to a duty to maintain
            its secrecy or limit its use; or 
          (III) derived from or through a person who owed a duty to the person
            seeking relief to maintain its secrecy or limit its use; or 
        (C) before a material change of his position, knew or had reason to
          know that it was a trade secret and that knowledge of it had been
          acquired by accident or mistake.

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