Getting a source or leak is one thing, but knowingly purchasing stolen property is illegal. And then, after confirming that it was the new iPhone, they posted all the pictures they had of it. Internal and external, which is also highly illegal in California (Uniform Trade Secrets Act). So, while posting that there was a new iPhone coming out was just journalism, but taking the steps to knowingly break the law and flaunt it was not journalism, it was being a pack of cockbites.Lucksi wrote:Don´t journalists pay for sources/leaks all the time and get away with it due to the law?
Refer to RvB DrunkTank #58 at an hour in, they have some great stories about what Gizmodo has done in the past to just screw people over for laughs. Gizmodo isn't a journalistic web site, they're just pretending to be so they can roam around and pull shiat like the entire iPhone scandal and scream about being journalists.
