Gizmodo journalist's comps seized

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Last Friday night, California's Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team entered editor Jason Chen's home without him present, seizing four computers and two servers. They did so using a warrant by Judge of Superior Court of San Mateo. According to Gaby Darbyshire, COO of Gawker Media LLC, the search warrant to remove these computers was invalid under section 1524(g) of the California Penal Code.
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Wow, at least I never thought Apple will go this far :mad:

Police Seize Jason Chen's Computers - Iphone 4 leak - Gizmodo
 
What Gizmodo did was clearly wrong and they are gonna pay for it. They shouldn't have put up the Apple engineer's name on billboards and play with his job. Fing idiots!
 
So Apple shows the real colors..

Gizmodo guy even batted for the person who lost the phone and this is how they payback ??

Somebody ought to boycott em.
 
They bought goods which were clearly stolen ,fully aware of the fact without attempting to return them ( no, calling apple does not suffice)
They outed the poor guy who lost it.

no sympathy from me.
 
As much as I love Gizmodo... the way they ran the latest Leak and how they tried to milk the story for more than a week, which was obtained in quite shady and unbelievable manner to begin with, I'm not sure I can side with Giz on this.

Plus, it's not like Apple instructed or ran the search... the actions were taken following the Apple's legal complaint, so I don't see how Apple can be blamed for PD's way of working. I know Apple can get really anal when it comes to secrecy around their new products, but seriously, which high profile company doesn't like to keep secrets?

Nobody knew for sure how Windows Mobile 7 was going to be like until MS announced. You think MS wouldn't have taken hard action, had someone leaked the entire Windows Mobile 7 details months before it's announcement?

Getting and publishing a scoop is one thing, blowing up the unreleased product (which is someone's trade property) obtained by cash transaction from the source whom it did not belong is completely unethical journalism and Giz had it coming one way or the other. I don't see a point in raising a storm over it, where the actual company is question hasn't personally taken an action, but just a PD doing it's work with proper warrant.

I mean seriously? I can understand if you wanna hate Apple... but hatred based on baseless assumptions? Cm'on!
 
If they were that concerned, they shd have responded when the attempts were on to restore the phone.

Secondly, the letter they sent for picking up the unit.. was pretty much docile and to the point.

I say docile cuz it never had any trace of impending action which might have been initiated.

Once they got the phone back, BAM!

now they would unleash their actions for a free round of publicity.
 
Spacescreamer said:
So Apple shows the real colors..
Gizmodo guy even batted for the person who lost the phone and this is how they payback ??

Somebody ought to boycott em.
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yeah. it's like those Shakila malayalam movies where they show semi porn for 140 minutes and preach for 10 minutes.

Get a break man. They had no right to buy a stolen device and they had no right in putting that guys name and portraying him as a loser!
 
Gizmodo is very clearly in the wrong here. It's a legal offence to sell stolen goods and with everybody talking about the $5000 Giz paid for it, the guy who picked up the phone at the bar and sold it is going down as well.

Spacescreamer said:
If they were that concerned, they shd have responded when the attempts were on to restore the phone.

Secondly, the letter they sent for picking up the unit.. was pretty much docile and to the point.

I say docile cuz it never had any trace of impending action which might have been initiated.

Once they got the phone back, BAM!

now they would unleash their actions for a free round of publicity.
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So if somebody steals your car, after a week sends you a nice and polite letter asking you to pick it up, it's all good? Get real man..
 
Anish said:
Gizmodo is very clearly in the wrong here. It's a legal offence to sell stolen goods and with everybody talking about the $5000 Giz paid for it, the guy who picked up the phone at the bar and sold it is going down as well.
So if somebody steals your car, after a week sends you a nice and polite letter asking you to pick it up, it's all good? Get real man..
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it's anti-fanboyism :)
 
Spacescreamer said:
If they were that concerned, they shd have responded when the attempts were on to restore the phone.

Secondly, the letter they sent for picking up the unit.. was pretty much docile and to the point.

I say docile cuz it never had any trace of impending action which might have been initiated.

Once they got the phone back, BAM!

now they would unleash their actions for a free round of publicity.
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What are you talking about?

You do understand, that even when the story broke out... Apple couldn't file complaint right next hour? Without checking all the legalities and the possible actions they can take? Not to mention, the court going over filed details and issuing appropriate warrants or clearance for PD to take action?

The letter sent to Gizmodo was by Apple legal department, requesting the return of said item. It was direct interaction from Apple to Giz. Remember, Apple hasn't filed legal action against Gizmodo, but had filed a complaint for investigating the whole charade that happened and the way it went down. From unknown guy getting his hands on phone to selling it to Giz, and Giz willing to pay for it with full knowledge that they are paying for something that doesn't belong to the said unknown guy or them. It's an unannounced product, it's a rightful property of it's makers and it's unethical to buy it. But at the moment the only thing that Giz could see was "Scoop of the year" and "massive boatload of page hits".

This is not a civil case, neither this is about the numerous stories Giz posted over the week... it's about a lost/stolen property, which in this case is a unreleased or unannounced flagship product by a high-profile company. This is a criminal investigation, not a civil action suit and the nature of investigation is decided by court. Giz had to return the phone one way or the other... the only good thing probably they had going for them that they returned it before PD action took place. Imagine if the PD had seized the phone from/on Gizmodo's propery (office or editor's home). The Gizmodo's involvement in this case just the part of it and many other will get investigated by PD over the time, including the truthfulness of story of the guy who lost and the one who got it. This is not directly targeted at Giz, but they are gonna get sucked in the flow cause they went too deep in the river, when the sign clearly said, "Do not swim".

Plus, I don't care how Giz wanna spin it... but publishing the Apple employee's name in article was really a stupidest thing to do. The said guy, is supposedly still at Apple and not removed from his job... but imagine the kind of ridicule he is going to face in future. He probably promptly reported the loss at Apple and that might have resulted in remote wipe, but his credibility is now badly F'ed up. Funny thing, they didn't post the name of the dude they paid to, to get the phone.... or maybe I missed it.

And those who think that Apple is getting free publicity out of this... get real. It's not doing any good for them, neither they need it. It's already proven (by Apple hater's themselves) that Apple is marketing genius, they know to market well without going for such free publicity route. As a matter of fact, the amount of details that has gotten out on the device is not really good for them, cause now they lost hype around the actual announcement event. Not to mention, now their competitors know quite well what to look forward to prepare the anti-iPhone campaign accordingly.
 
and Gizmodo guys are stupid enough to announce that they paid 5000$ to get the phone. How insane can they actually be. They could have made up a story that would deny any legal action on them instead of saying to the world "Look world, I just paid for this h/w that is stolen and is Intellectual property of a giant that is ruthless in attacking those that leak confidential data".

and this is not the first time they did something so stupid and announced to the whole world!

PS: I think they might have made huge money by selling those iphone pics to other tech media!
 
The minute Gizmodo PAID to get their hands on the device, they got themselves into deep shit. They have noone but themselves to blame for the whole saga.
 
Roxtin said:
Ok seems I am the only one here who does not know what lead to this? So any details or link is welcome :p
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1. Some apple employee forgets iphone 4G (yes 4G) in a restaurant/bar
2. Some random guy in bar picks the phone and realizes he has got some treasure (sort of :p). In short the phone is stolen now.
3. He sells this stolen phone to gizmodo website who buy for 5000$ from this thief (if you can say him that)
4. Gizmodo flaunts that they have iphone 4G prototype and this time it is for real
5. Apple gets back the phone from gizmodo
6. Apple screws them :eek:hyeah:

Yes i have free time at office today :bleh:
 
Gizmodo is nothing but f**king apple fanboi writer club. Jason Chan, Jesus Diaz, Jack Loftas are Steve Jobs workshippers.

Jesus Diaz specially is a kind of guy who snips Jobs's p**nties to get a high. He even compared Jobs with Gandhi!!? And after getting hell lot of comments and insults, the a**hole changed the language and made it look like he was comparing their faces. Gandhi compared to Jobs? You must be kidding. Here is the article:

Steve Gandhi or Mahatma Jobs - Gandhi - Gizmodo

When the comments still went about kicking his sorry a**, he finally added the line "they are not comparable" and removed 3 full paragraphs. Read the comments to know the pantheism which is Gizmodo. In Gizmodo the latest comments are on top. Read from the last comment up to know what I am talking about. (And BTW, most of the starting comments (including mine) were deleted after the post was edited.)

And then, out of nowhere, a highly "secretive" phone gets left behind in a coffee table and gets in the hands of a guy who goes straight to Gizmodo for a article writeup!! Quite convenient.

PS: The flare in my language is directed to Gizmodo and not to any other guy here in this forum.
 
Supra said:
Lol why does APPLE wanna protect their assets and make so much margins/profits ? Steve Jobs should go down with liver cancer :p
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I don't know if it's just my apple fanboyism, but I find this post highly objectionable.
 
^ Why? Unless he was being serious... but I smell sarcasm towards the Apple bashers around, who thinks it's bad when Apple tries to protect their property.
 
In INDIA Apple would not have been to do all these sh1t ! If you are working for Apple and loose iphone 5 and some auto walla flicks it and gives it to India TV news....you know what they would have done with it :rofl:

Damn if I loose or get my phone stolen , I cant do anything....but if APPLE looses it they can do anything they want. Is it the new corporate law ?
 
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