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#1 4/26/10 10:51 pm
Police sieze computers of gizmodo reporter
You remember a few days back, when the new iPhone prototype was leaked? Well, cops busted in and took all his shit.
http://gizmodo.com/5524843/police-seize … -computers
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#3 4/27/10 5:23 pm
- Memnoch
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Wow. That sucks.
Without condoning... or condemning. I understand.
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#4 4/27/10 6:30 pm
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stolen? wasn't it lost? buying lost property? wtf is going and why are people dicks? that last question has nothing to do really with this, so much as everyone in the world is a dick at one time or another, time for spaghetti.
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#5 4/27/10 7:25 pm
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According to California state law, finding lost property and selling it is indeed theft, even if it's not necessarily "stolen".
One who finds lost property under circumstances which give him knowledge of or means of inquiry as to the true owner, and who appropriates such property to his own use, or to the use of another person not entitled thereto, without first making reasonable and just efforts to find the owner and to restore the property to him, is guilty of theft.
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#6 4/27/10 9:40 pm
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wow that's whack....lol they should have just 'researched' the phone then returned it and say "oh after serious investigation, we've totally figured out it belongs to Steve Jobs....whoops! where did all this data come from!?"
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#7 4/27/10 11:28 pm
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They did just that. They bought the stolen phone for $5,000, researched the hell out of it, and gave it back after apple e-mailed them about it.
Here's a great breakdown on why it actually was a crime, etc. http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/why-a … /19447570/
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#8 4/28/10 9:06 am
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"without first making reasonable and just efforts to find the owner and to restore the property to him,"
the original guy who found it called Apple multiple times trying to give it back to them, and they rebuffed him.
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#9 4/28/10 12:01 pm
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Allegedly, anyways. Gizmodo hasn't even said who they bought the device from.
Plus, it's not like Apple has a "lost prototype" hotline. Calling into the main number and actually getting someone who would even know of its existence would be pretty much impossible.
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#13 4/29/10 10:36 pm
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Surprise surprise, the finder of the phone has been identified, and he never contacted Apple to return it. He's also got a lawyer now.
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#14 4/29/10 10:48 pm
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Initial reports had it that the man who'd taken the iPhone tried repeatedly to call the Apple Care support line to return the phone, but according to the statement in the Wired story, Hogan never personally called Apple, although a friend of his offered to. The owners of the bar where the iPhone was lost also told Wired that Hogan never bothered to call them about the lost hardware, although the anguished Apple engineer who mislaid the iPhone "returned several times" to see if it had turned up.
oh, yeah... he's boned.
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