It wasn't stolen though. Sega disposed of this equipment improperly and afterwards realized they had an agreement with Nintendo that included a clause that it needed to be returned to them.
I already wrote that I meant. It's "stolen" when an item is in possession of a person who shouldn't have to begin with and the person had no intention to find out if the item was stolen or not and no intention to return it to its owner. It can turned out that it was not "accidentally discarded", there may be real deal thief situation going on about it.
A contractional agreement isn't federal law. It's an agreement between two private parties.
Sega may not be sure if a thief situation actually happened or not, if it did happen they would wanna hide it. Better play safe and let cops handle it. Another thing is if the company filed a report for missing items "possibily stolen we dunno" it is what cops looks for. What you think cops does and should do? They didn't call army or something lol.
The fact he wasn't charged is pretty indicative that no crime was committed.
Nope. It means he wasn't directly held responsible. It means he was not held criminal charges, but it doesn't mean when Nintendo and Sega should sue the guy he can getaway from civil charges. In civil charges he bitching about it can further dig his own grave for these companies may want to push civil lawsuit for "he casually buys company item a random person shouldn't have and then bitching about it, let's show society you can't just fuck with us by making us look bad" lol. He also make a possible civil lawsuit cause to open a criminal lawsuit because to prove if someone did commit crime and estimate how much a company lost due to this situation you gotta unearth all details about this situation, which eventually whatever this guy did whether serial killing or thievery can be unearthed.
Long story short, without enough evidence and without real-deal public harm people cannot be held responsible with criminal charges. This is why when someone really did kill someone which even judge can figure this out are set free due to lack of evidence. But what this guy did is civil harm therefore it is only concern of civil case between these companies and him therefore he can be sued alright.
I own a devkit for an old console that was obviously never meant to be released to the public. I can assure you I am not committing a crime by buying or owning it. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to find this stuff on ebay, etc so easily.
Then this is not what law would care until the owner of the product the company legally asks the website not to sell the product and if they don't obey the company can sue the website and every buyer they found.
For example release a Youtube video of yourself with this devkit, and especially say "I bought it" and then Nintendo may sue you alright and only then as a civil case law will care.
Yes companies don't like it when the general population gets their hands on stuff like this but it's their own responsibility to prevent it, not the police.
Your opinion is not realistic at all. Naturally a company is not "god" so they can do anything so they can prevent what they don't desire. And job of cops is being tool of the law.
When you have your laptop being stolen blame yourself and say "it's not cop's job to find me laptop", it doesn't make sense at all. "Oh no they selling my beloved PS3 they stole from me" but you remind yourself "it was my fault so they can sell it" ayy lmao.
Do you know why people are sued, pressed criminal or civil charges so they ended up going to jail or have to pay a huge amount of their money by working their ass off for decades? It's just because they underestimate law because their understanding of law and how world works is shitty kindergarten logic lolol. People literally kill each other and in their defense they say "but he cursed at my mother", or the guy was going to attack in anger without any weapon whatsoever and my criminal kills the guy with a rifle and says "but it was self-defense". What you guys think what law is?