"You know it's Apple's property." More to the point: the folks at Gizmodo, being reporters on this very industry, were uniquely positioned to know exactly what

"You know it's Apple's property." More to the point: the folks at Gizmodo, being reporters on this very industry, were uniquely positioned to know exactly what the phone was. The five thousand dollars that exchanged hands drives home that point. They'll have a very difficult time mounting an ignorance-based defense here.