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Originally Posted by shalym
Interesting...so if I go to a pawn shop and buy something that later turns out to be stolen...am I committing a crime? What about if a seller puts a book onto Amazon that they don't have the rights to sell, and I buy it, am I committing a crime then?
Shari
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I think in the case it would be the pawn shop owner who would be prosecuted for receiving, because he's acting as a fence: buying from someone he (probably) knows to be a thief, then selling this on to the public.