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I have a question: Why they are not acting against Gizmodo as a company and bothering Chan?
by ashishbharthi 16y ago
I have a question: Why they are not acting against Gizmodo as a company and bothering Chan?
- smallblacksun 16y agoBecause he is the one who (allegedly) received stolen property.
- ashishbharthi 16y agoBut he works for Gizmodo and I am sure he did not pay that $5,000 from his own pocket.
- anigbrowl 16y agoa) maybe they are, or intend to, or indeed intend to move against their parent company, Gawker media. b) Chen was the last person who had possession of the device; when Apple's general counsel demanded its return, the Gizmodo editor directed him to contact Chen directly. It might be more appropriate to wonder why Chen was left to handle the situation on his own, rather than the return to Apple being handled by Giz/Gawker's legal counsel or legal representative.
- dfox 16y agoBecause you cannot make criminal case against company. (I assume that this is the case even in US. And from practical standpoint it makes sense: how would you send company to jail?)
- anigbrowl 16y agoCertainly you can. you can't send the company to jail, but you can fine them, jail the executives who approved a criminal act, and suchlike.