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It is interesting that everyone always points to this california law, and the key word thrown around is misappropriation, though, according to wikipedia, misapp
by Judson 16y ago
It is interesting that everyone always points to this california law, and the key word thrown around is misappropriation, though, according to wikipedia, misappropriation is meant to mean something like:
"failure to care for property you were entrusted with"
If the phone was returned, in order, to Apple - maybe it was in a contract he signed with Gizmodo, I don't think misappropriation occurred here as the found phone was eventually returned.
I'm not saying that Gizmodo is in perfect legal standing, but if this case wasn't so high profile, it would have already been dropped by now.
- mbreese 16y ago> according to wikipedia I don't mean to sound glib, but I'm fairly certain that wikipedia is not an expert on California legal codes.
- mrkurt 16y agoNor are most Hacker News posters. At least Wikipedia cites sources. :)
- mbreese 16y agoVery true... but most HN posters at least have some sort of identity that they like to protect. And karma helps too... With wikipedia you can never be sure that someone doesn't have an axe to grind. At least it's usually obvious here. :)
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