[CNN] Stolen Laptops and lame 'solution'

Kent Crispin kent at songbird.com
Wed Jun 11 22:46:41 PDT 1997



On Wed, Jun 11, 1997 at 09:37:42PM -0500, William H. Geiger III wrote:
[...]
>The end buyer should not be held responcible for the illegal activities of
>the seller.

Regardless of responsibility, if the original owner can prove it is
stolen goods, the end buyer is out of luck -- clearly the original
owner should get their goods back.  And if the end buyer provably has
clear knowledge that it is stolen property, they are an accesssory to
the crime. 

-- 
Kent Crispin				"No reason to get excited",
kent at songbird.com			the thief he kindly spoke...
PGP fingerprint:   B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44  61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55
http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html







More information about the cypherpunks-legacy mailing list