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Police Seize Gizmodo Editor's Computers and Other Property Related to Lost Next-Generation iPhone
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I am sure the local police want to keep their golden apple folks happy and will go to great lengths to keep them happy.
Amazing. This story just keeps on delivering. It will be very interesting to hear the tale of the person who sold Gizmodo the phone. I'm sure we'll hear it soon enough eh?
Journalism does not trump trafficking in stolen goods.
Paying for something which you know is not the lawful property of the seller is theft.
My guess is they're looking for the guy that sold the phone to Gizmodo. Wouldn't want to be in that guy's shoes right about now 
They raided his house OVER A PHONE?!
I'm sorry, but I never saw a huge problem with Gizmodo buying the phone and writing about it (although they have been really milking it), and I can see the reasoning for making the guy's name (and therefore the consequences of his losing the phone) public.
I can't believe this. I'd be furious. It's a damn phone.
Guessing I'll have to start following another liveblog for Apple events now though, sigh.
I'm sorry, but I never saw a huge problem with Gizmodo buying the phone and writing about it (although they have been really milking it), and I can see the reasoning for making the guy's name (and therefore the consequences of his losing the phone) public.
I can't believe this. I'd be furious. It's a damn phone.
Guessing I'll have to start following another liveblog for Apple events now though, sigh.
Wow...if ANY other company did this can you imagine the backlash? How can this possibly be good for Apple? "You got a hold of our phone, we are now going to send the police to kick in your door and take your things."
So now the police can take if you are in possession of LOST property?
Correction, Stolen.
Difference is this involves trade secrets which can have a much much larger impact and Gizmodo earned money from the process.
It is still under investigation if they are found to have do nothing wrong then it will end here however the police had enough evidence to believe that a crime was committed and are acting on it, i.e. doing the job they are supposed to do.
From which side? Gizmodo being mad at apple, or apple being mad at Gizmodo?
Apple should just let this all drop...they screwed up and lost a phone. Gizmodo got a hold of it and gave it back. As soon as it was lost pictures were going to show up either way....
What giz did may have been questionable, but is this a fight worth fighting? I don't know. Maybe there is more to the story than we know.
It wasn't a matter of mere possession of lost property.
It was a matter of paying a third party for it while knowing it wasn't the seller's to sell.
You find my wallet, fine.
You find my wallet and sell it to a journalist so he can go thru the contents in great inquisitive detail and publish what he finds, I'm gonna have a big problem with that.
If they did that then the police department is opening itself up to law suites. The source aka who sold the phone has some legal protection in the fact the Gizmo does not have to give up who the source is.
Erm have you been living under a rock for the past week? It's not just a phone, it's a prototype, of which it is covered as Trade Secrets.