While I was posting that I thought about the possibility that the statute of limitations might have run out, but I was too lazy to look it up (because you know the law probably is on the Internet
somewhere - seemingly everything is
). But there is another reason why we may not be likely to see the portrait up for sale on eBay anytime soon, and that's because, in all likelihood, the person who possesses it didn't acquire it to make a profit - they acquired it just to possess it. And the thing that probably gives them their greatest satisfaction is knowing they have it and no one else does. And someone like that doesn't give up a possession like that very easily. (I've suspected the same may be true of the person who supposedly has a longer version of hoDS, if indeed the longer version is in someone's possession. And if that is true, in their case it really is sad that they're not willing to share it with the rest of fandom. But that's a whole other discussion for a whole other topic, like the topic about the longer version of hoDS...)