> Yeah, the burden is on the buyer not to purchase stolen goods.
1 party has 100% of the information, 1 party has 0% of the information, and the burden is on the party with 0% information. That's absurd.
> The manufacturer is certainly under no obligation to support them.
Not support and bricking are two different things.
> In many states even unknowing possession of stolen goods is a crime
Generally the state has to prove the defendant took receipt of the items for an unlawful purpose. Ohio is an exception, but I'm not sure if there is another one.
> so many of the "users" here are in fact getting off lightly.
You use "many" incorrectly here: Very, very few are. Because very, very few jurisdictions make it a crime to unknowingly receive stolen property and even fewer would actually press charges even if allowed.
His post is mostly nonsense, but not entirely. First while the burden of proof is not necessarily on the purchaser, if you have in fact purchased stolen goods, you must still forfeit them to law enforcement. There are no jurisdictions that let you keep stolen goods. In most jurisdictions you then need to get restitution from whomever sold you the device, and they can obviously face charges.
The manufacturer can definitely brick, or do whatever they want. The devices are still their rightful property, this isn't a gray area, they were stolen, no one has rightful claim to them except the owner, who was the manufacturer.
> Not support and bricking are two different things.
I wouldn't expect a stolen car to be maintained for me, and I would expect it to be stopped by the police and taken away - which I would consider to be effectively bricking it. This would still, and sadly does regularly happen, even if I didn't know it was stolen when I bought it. It doesn't need to be stolen too, if the owner is in fact still a finance company (for example) and it was sold to me without their agreement - they would be within their rights to take it away, and as I understand it without any police involvement (if it's publicly accessible and they don't use force)
1 party has 100% of the information, 1 party has 0% of the information, and the burden is on the party with 0% information. That's absurd.
> The manufacturer is certainly under no obligation to support them.
Not support and bricking are two different things.
> In many states even unknowing possession of stolen goods is a crime
Generally the state has to prove the defendant took receipt of the items for an unlawful purpose. Ohio is an exception, but I'm not sure if there is another one.
> so many of the "users" here are in fact getting off lightly.
You use "many" incorrectly here: Very, very few are. Because very, very few jurisdictions make it a crime to unknowingly receive stolen property and even fewer would actually press charges even if allowed.
Your post is nonsense.