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ChadTower:

--- Quote from: hypernova on August 01, 2008, 11:14:30 am ---
--- Quote ---I think its pretty funny mentioning all your downloads, like it ment something valuable.
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Let's see.  It cost money to download all those things, thus it has monetary value, so yes, it was valuable, smartass. ::)

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Actually, it's not a bad question.  It had monetary value when you bought it.  The games are nontransferrable and can be redownloaded, in theory, at Nintendo's discretion.  Do they retain any value after they are purchased?  I'm sure your home insurance provider is going to give that some thought.  You couldn't sell them once you had bought them so did they really have any value at that point?

melarky:
I had my car broken into and my GPS stolen a while back, ended up finding it on ebay, wrote about it here:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=61312.0

Good luck, I hope you find your stuff, and I'm sorry to hear that this happened to you.

shmokes:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 01, 2008, 10:07:19 am ---
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on August 01, 2008, 09:50:02 am ---edit: oh, and if the police went as far as to trace the ISP of the wii, all they will find is the sucker who bought it from cash converters...

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While probably true, receiving stolen property, even without knowledge of it being stolen, is a crime here.  The Police would use that to get the person to reveal where they bought the Wii.  The Wii then gets taken back to the pawn shop.  The pawn shop, by law, has records of who sold them everything in the place.  The Police use the pawn shop's records to find the thief.  The pawn shops and cops are so practiced in this that it doesn't take long at all.

Of course, I seriously doubt you'd ever get the ISP info from Nintendo nor the user info for that specific IP from the ISP.  Not without a lawsuit that costs way more than the Wii ever would.

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Actually I just looked into this a little bit, and it looks like it's FAR easier to subpoena information than one would think.  In some states you just have to fill out a form and if the court clerk thinks its reasonable he/she will sign it and, voila.  A lot of people/companies will simply comply with a subpoena out of hand.  If the company chooses not to comply with the subpoena it must be prepared to show good cause before a judge or it will be held in contempt.  That's just from about five minutes of google research, though, so I could have that totally wrong.  I haven't dealt with it in the slightest at school.

ChadTower:

I'm thinking the main issue isn't willingness it's the fact that Nintendo is in Japan.  They have no obligation to care about a tiny subpoena from the US.

ark_ader:

--- Quote from: hypernova on August 01, 2008, 11:14:30 am ---
--- Quote ---I think its pretty funny mentioning all your downloads, like it ment something valuable.
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Let's see.  It cost money to download all those things, thus it has monetary value, so yes, it was valuable, smartass. ::)

My laptop case had a SNES USB adapter.  That can be replaced.  The fully functioning ASCII pad with turbo and slow motion (best SNES turbo pad ever) is quite a bit harder to replace.  I hate the fact that I was about 30 hours in FFXII.  Since they have my memory card, it's basically like I wasted 30 hours doing nothing.

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Gee listen to you.  All your SNES pads....Get a life.

Maybe this act of theft has some merit.  Maybe you will now spend your life doing something OUTSIDE rather than sitting in front of the TV with your SNES.

I showed this thread to a mate of mine and he couldn't believe how funny it was.

:laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:

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