Well, since we were asked to locate material to pirate, which the company intended to sell, it would be criminal, but the criminal act would be the sale of the material, not the procurement of the material, as I read the law.

There might have been a possibility of a claim that we employees asked to download the material were committing a criminal offense under the 'posession with during business with intent to commit and act of infringement', but even there I think it'd be the VPs that had the stupid idea that were committing infringement, not us lowly employees asked to acquire the material.

About the best I suspect CPS could hope for would be a threat as a cudgel to admit who suggested the idea. But I'd have happily told them, and I left the company very shortly after.