Comment by pseudohadamard
4 hours ago
That seems a bit overblown. Can you really imagine the BBC prosecuting someone over this? It'd be PR suicide. And if you read TFA they were thrilled to get the two lost episodes back, no mention of prosecution or anything else.
Some of the people who've been involved in getting previously found episodes returned/restored have stated that they know of collectors who are likely to have copies of other episodes but are worried about how they'd be treated.