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No.
You cannot violate copyright by seeing, reading, hearing, or feeling a work. Even if you are knowingly observing an infringing copy, your consumption of that work is not an infringement.
Unless you were complicit in creating or distributing the infringing copy, you are free to consume any copy that you have acquired.
Well, you could make it such that accessing it would make you break the law, but then it would still be the accessing, not consumption that breaks the law.
Agreed, with one caveat: while mere access could be potentially illegal, I don't think that it would be copyright law that would be broken.
Yes, that is what I was trying to say