[81642] in Cypherpunks
Re: [CNN] Stolen Laptops and lame 'solution'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent Crispin)
Thu Jun 12 02:10:30 1997
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 22:39:34 -0700
From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Reply-To: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
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@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke...
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