Baldur’s Gate 3 has made bank for Hasbro, significantly contributing to a 40 percent increase in digital revenue for the company.

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      11 months ago

      Knowingly being in possession of stolen property is a crime.

      If there’s no legitimate source and a reasonable person would recognize that it’s stolen by default, you can definitely go to jail.

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          11 months ago

          It’s generally hard to prosecute because there are plausible other explanations for intent. You don’t have any way of knowing a generic laptop is stolen vs used.

          Having a unique item from a company you make money covering, that wasn’t ever sold legitimately and you didn’t acquire from any legitimate source, is absolutely something that could get to trial at minimum, if the company is pushing the DA to do so. You’d end up having to have a lawyer convince a jury that “I didn’t know” is believable.

          The fact that they chose to give the streamer a pass for cooperating doesn’t mean that they couldn’t have perfectly reasonably or successfully pursued charges. Choosing not to do so is more evidence of them choosing the nice way.

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              You don’t have to see into their brain.

              The US tends to use the reasonable person standard. If a reasonable person, with the information you have, would know that it’s stolen, you knowingly possessed stolen goods.

              Something that doesn’t exist through legitimate channels, especially for a subject you portray yourself as knowledgeable of, is enough. You have to cast reasonable doubt with a plausible alternative explanation.