Not that I disagree with the rest of your comment, but
No way any normal person would say no to 2mil.
No way would I want the stress or weight on my conscience of having just stolen 2 mil.
In my opinion, anyone who would take that money is the abnormal one.
Ah yes, a statement on copyright thanking someone for buying an authorised edition of Great Expectations, a book whose copyright expired in 1940 at the latest…