If someone were to steal say a bike from me and then take it to a pawn shop to sell.  After it's sold to the pawn shop, the cops find it...isn't it the pawn shops responsibility and they have to give the bike back?   They have to do their due diligence on how the bike was brought to them.

 

Kind of similar to the video, especially with something like this. Gawker needed to do their due diligence and make sure the video was not obtained illegally.  I'm assuming they knew it was....

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