Cops Raid Gizmodo
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- DoktorDavid0
I hear you about things and the inherent madness there is to attachment, but your story doesn't exactly parallel the story at hand.
Here's another take... my wife and I had our town house broken into; stripped down to the walls. Ripped off by crack heads. How do I know? Saw a crack head, one I know by sight, walking down the street one day, wearing one of my t-shirts, high as a Georgia pine, as the saying goes.
Now it is possible that he got the shirt via other means, just like me buying back some of the CD's they stole at a local record store, where they had gone in to gather a few bucks. Could have called the cops, could have got them involved; but, for what? A t-shirt? Maybe 15-20 dollars?
So, I know I have had something stolen, see someone flaunting what they had taken and... then I made a decision not to act. Apple knows something has been "stolen", observes that someone is flaunting what they consider to be their's, even gets the item back. Then, the police get involved. Does that mean Apple called the cops in on it? Or did they draw their own conclusions and act? I'm not sure we will ever know.
You're right - who cares, who gives a shit? Well, the key here is somebody did, with the ability to act on that caring.
I hold no ill will to Gizmodo or to Apple. The courts will now decide who was right and who was wrong.