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lossolo • yesterday at 5:46 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

What matters is how you got it. Accepting a watch someone freely offers you is different from breaking into a house to steal it, even if the watch you were given turns out to be stolen.


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piltdownman • yesterday at 5:54 PM

In reference to the laws handling stolen goods; the law holds you accountable if a reasonable person in your exact situation would have suspected the item was stolen.

For example, if the item was derived from a repository of stolen goods that was already illegal in the US on the basis of it being a repository of stolen goods.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/pirate-library-m...

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