He did return the data, in a sense. He gave JSTOR the hard drives containing the articles he copied and assured them that it was the only copy. Source: https:/

He did return the data, in a sense. He gave JSTOR the hard drives containing the articles he copied and assured them that it was the only copy. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/us/20compute.html?_r=0 https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/us/20compute.html?_r=0 You're right in that return is probably the wrong word though, because it implies that they were "gone" in the first place.