Sega accused of using police to recover Nintendo devkits it had "negligently disposed of"

[Pemalite]

Cerebralbore101 said:

Pemalite said:

If you read the article, they bought it legitimately.
It's Sega that stuffed up.

I quoted the part where he claims to have bought it legitimately from a removals worker. That doesn't mean that the removals worker had a right to sell it. In fact the removals worker did not have a right to sell it at all, because it was the property of Nintendo, not Sega. So he did not buy it legitimately because Sega can't sell property that it does not own. And again, as a reseller dealing in dev kits he should have known this. He was just banking on Nintendo not knowing or not caring. This is pretty much what all dev kit resellers and buyers are doing. 

The removals worker were following Segas direction. The buyer didn't sign any agreement with Nintendo nor Sega and is thus unlikely to be beholden to the same "returns" rules of Segas contract with Nintendo.

Sega is at fault. And thus litigation shouldn't be the weapon of choice here for Segas own screw up.

Let's not defend big corporations here who use their overwhelming power, influence and money to destroy the little guy rather than engage in constructive dialog to mediate an issue.