I'm not sure what the rights are to using such material as posted content. I'm going to have to ask a colleague for his legal opinion.
I'm going to go the tact that it's "found", depending on how the person got the hard drive. Did he buy it at a yard sale? Did he find it on the street with the trash?
I know that some people have used found items as art and music pieces with no litigation repercussions ala The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, who would buy slideshow carousels and slides from yard sales, write stories to go with the slides and music to the stories.
re: the letters, well this is why I have kept all my hard drives since the mid-90s. I don't trust wiping them and tossing them out. They don't take up a lot of space and I know they are all together in a box in my closet.
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