Cops Raid Gizmodo
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- mg330
I have wasted far too much time in the interest of this story, reading blog comments, etc. because frankly it's a fascinating story.
But after digesting various viewpoints on the topic, the blame lies squarely on Gizmodo for being in the spot they're now in. They're not stupid. Jason Chen is not stupid. Posting the teardown of the phone to the blog, in my opinion, is the one place where they really went wrong.
Buying the phone - I get that. Taking it apart - I get that too. But the second they realized this was a near-final-production 4G phone is when Chen should have said "Oh fuck..." and contacted a lawyer and gotten in touch with Apple. They could have turned the phone in, and it could have been his curiosity of whether or not it was a knockoff or the real deal that caused him to buy it and take it apart. Just think of the goodwill that may have come their way if they'd gone that route.
Now, I know there's info out there about how Apple at first said that they hadn't lost a phone, but that's beside the point. As soon as Chen knew what he had, posting it to the blog was the very last thing he should have done. If anything, a post saying "we've seen the new iPhone, but that's all we're gonna say" would have been fine. THEN to perhaps post about it after the phone was debuted might have been a potential story.
Hopefully, though, we will also see what happens to the person that sold it, and see if there's truth to their "I tried to return it" story.
- you'll never get back all that arthur kade time... no matter whatquack
- hahahaha - man, you're insane.mg33
- hahahabigtrickagain
- +1pillhead
- subcommandante0
So how many of you who have lost a cel phone have had a SWAT team recover it for you?
Just askin'...
Welcome to America. Either your a player or your not.
Steve is a player. No one here is.
- BTW - Fuck Apple and all you fanboys.subcommandante
- IP is lost on you huh? imagine had it been sold to China, it stayed local at leastquack
- you are disqualified. have fun designing posters for the revolution.spifflink
- @quack - Sold to China? Why, its fucking made there!! What are you on??ETM
- bigtrickagain0
dude, they bought a stolen phone from a guy, and instead of returning it, mined it for secret goodies and blasted it all over the internets.
- prophet0
exactly. there's no way stevie would be all like 'you gizmodo guys, ah man you got us, oh well...' -- instead he's shitting atomic bombs. no surprise there. and yet as i type this i wonder... who gives a shit in the grand scheme of the universe? lolswirl.
- whereRI0
this is all a very very good publicity stunt
- pr20
I can't believe you tools up there who think it's OK for a big corp to dictate how the police should respond to when some dude post something on the net. You guy who think it's OK are more dumb and living in the dark then the fuck from the Matrix.
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- ukit0
This topic has a lot of potential for tomorrow. I'm predicting 200+ responses.
- georgesIII0
- is that who i think it is?pango
- yep. it's steve
IT IS NOT MOHAMED PLEASE STOP HARASSING MEgeorgesIII
- kult0
Police would never, ever respond to 'theft' of IP by an average person, no matter how legitimate it is.
- spraycan0
fascist pigs
- Kiggen0
I don't like Gawker is mis-using the journalism laws.
This is to protect journalists that come out with important stories, ...
Not for a guy who wrongly acquired technology. This is degrading what generations of journalists had fought for. This sets also an ugly precedent for future 'coincidental' discoveries.- And for fascist society it doesn't set a great example???pr2
- really, i i'm sick of guys like you. If you think this is a fascist action, go burn down the streets and riotKiggen
- oh no wait, you work in videoclips and advertising, maybe you should stop doing that thanKiggen
- because in your mindset, what we do is one of the causesKiggen
- georgesIII0
I call bullshit on this entire story,
too much hype for a technological fart
- lukus_W0
Yet again, another story showing how Apple are an evil company.
- TheMagicSheep0
^^ but, it's kinda like the queen farting. you know she does...but, nobody has ever heard it. except for maybe a few people and they'll never tell you about it. and you know, like all girl farts, it will kinda smell like ham for some reason.
- Josev0
I'm disappointed with Apple. I would hope they'd have gone in with a matt black Apple helicopter and Ninjas wearing Jonathon Ive designed techno-jumpsuits and gotten the thing back themselves.
- Kiggen0
lets do this:
You lose a important file of the restyling of a big client. Some dude finds it, and sells it. You would try to get it back before anybody else start stealing ideas from it, no? And you would like to know who found, why it was sold and if was really 'found' instead of stolen, no?
- sigg0
i'm with apple
^someone put that on a shirt and i'll buy it
- raf0
You come up with concepts what is just and what isn't and stories about corporate bullying while it's California law that says if you found something, you are obliged to return it.
In other countries/states maybe you own what you found, not in CA. Period.
- Centigrade0
Can someone do a hitler parody of this thing please. I need a giggle.