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Originally Posted by hrosvit
This is simply wrong on so many levels. Again, the stereotypes and assumptions are thick and heavy.
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I speak from personal experience. I am an IT professional, and deal with this sort of thing from time to time.
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Originally Posted by hrosvit
Explain to me what part costs "tens of thousands of dollars". The police obtain the IP address (which the merchant is obligated to provide, according to federal law, specifically the Fair Credit Reporting Act, without court order, subpoena or search warrant).
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Heh. Just keep telling yourself that. Can you quote the specific part of the US Code on that? Because it seems to me that the Fair Credit Reporting Act would be about fairly reporting credit status, rather than criminal invenstigations. A quick scan of the actual text of the Act shows one section that deals with criminal investigations, and that (U.S.C 15 § 626) applies only to the FBI, only to investigations in to terrorism or espionage, must be signed personally by an FBI employee no lower than the head of a field office (whose time is very expensive), specifically allows credit reporting bureaus to charge their usual fees, and
does not require disclusure of technical information like IP addresses.
So, which section, exactly, of the US code are you talking about?
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Originally Posted by hrosvit
So far, cost: $0.
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Because police work for free, make nothing for their time, which they have infinite amounts of.
Nice planet you live on there son.
All police investigations have a financial cost. Always.
But, since the OP seems inclined to go the more reasonable route of working with B&N to get a refund, it seems unlikely we'll ever know.