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Originally Posted by tjinaz
You buy a computer you know was stolen. You did not do the stealing but you can be charged with receiving stolen property. Or you are a magazine and buy a nude picture of some hollywood star that was on a computer that was stolen from them. Are you still able to be charged? Yes I think you are.
Same thing here. WikiLeaks is treading on very dangerous ground. If they tried this with Russia, China, or Israel... Mr Assange would we liquefied by now and his people would be running for their lives.
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Again, lawyers can go into further depth here, I am not one, but information is not necessarily property. The computer analogy isn't apt and it isn't the same thing.