How do they expect to defend themselves. They knew it
was stolen (removed without the owners consent - "lost" or
lifted, the owner didn't consent, it wasn't handed to the
proper authorities) they bought it. Even if you accept they
didn't "know" until the disassembled it, clearly they hoped
is was genuine (and hence stolen). Then the revealed Apple
trade secrets for profit (and they didn't do a very good job
of that).
What's the defence? "We're idiots", "We've got a blog",
"Look, it's funny" - none of these are terribly compelling.
What did we learn? Apple are doing a new iPhone (hardly
news) it has a front facing camera (Hmm... alright) it might
look different (my guess is it will look very like the
prototype - but we don't know for sure) it's got a big
battery (I could have guessed that). Hardly seems worth
the world of hurt Apple legal will put them in.
Maybe the defence "We're idiots" is plausible, but I don't
think it helps much - legally.
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