I completely agree with Craig Hockenberry’s assessment of the Gizmodo iPhone situation.
If I find an iPhone and find on it a picture of Jesus Diaz, Jason Chen, Brian Lam, or any other one of the cocksuckers over at Gawker Media getting fisted in the ass, you can be damn sure it’s going up somewhere so that I can make a boatload of money from it.
I’ve already edited my /etc/hosts file. I encourage you to do the same. See Craig’s page for the details.
UPDATE 1: Gizmodo apparently got a letter asking for the iPhone back. Gizmodo says they didn’t know the iPhone was stolen. Except nobody said it was stolen. Reminds me of the TV show “Cops”: officer tells a perp that someone hit a pedestrian and they are looking for the driver, perp says he was at home watching TV and doesn’t know what happened, officer then says that he never mentioned what time the pedestrian was hit. FAIL.
UPDATE FUCKING 2: The letter from Apple Legal says “a device that belongs to Apple.” If Gizmodo didn’t do anything wrong, then it would have had to ask “What device are you referring to?” I hope that if there are pictures on the internet of a Gizmodo editor being fisted, it’s by some member of Apple’s legal team. I would make it my desktop background.
UPDATE 3: More good coverage from someone with a brain, Andy Ihnatko.