> At least in the United States, you are not going to get away with
> claiming there is some stolen code that caused damages.
...
> Instead, to prevent this kind of "legal theft", the only thing a person
> found in possession of "stolen" property needs to do is to return it,
> unless there is evidence that the possessor actually stole the property
> in question.
Yeah, right.
``I "found" these 3GB of mp3's of music and I had no idea that
they were stolen but now that you mention it, here they are back.
Finders keepers, right?''
What were you thinking? That's obviously incorrect, I know that it is
incorrect from both observation of recent court cases as well as direct
personal experience.
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