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How can you tell if an item is stolen?
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good guesses.
But for real now... EA approves things first but it is very hard to catch it all. Check to see if the sellers are older sims, if the product discription sounds like you would describe your custom made item (you know not chair5). Things like that.
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Last time some stuff was found to be stolen an in game message came on that said to go back to the store and demand a refund and that they were taking the stolen stuff away. IMO, EA should of compensated players for the stolen items since essentially EA was responsible for making sure they items were not stolen by allowing them to upload them. If they realized that stolen items got through then the players that bought them should not be penalized.
Just my 3.5 cents.
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But why shouldn't the thieves have to pay for their own thievery? No...the only way I'd support EA having to give back the money on the purchase price of stuff is if they first took it OUT of the pocket of the one that stole the stuff. Possession of stolen property is still a prosecutable offense in certain circumstances in RL, so I don't buy into the belief that a person who buys stolen CC should have no culpability just because the stuff was 'approved' into the game. Some of this stuff is just PAINFULLY obvious that even though it's gorgeous, beautiful, cute, all that that the person ripped it off from somewhere, so I've stopped myself lots from buying that kind of stuff. People have to use common sense and THINK about copyright law, which even if you're not familiar with it now, its very easy to use Google and get an elementary knowledge of it...so if you're ignorant to it you have only yourself to blame for that ignorance and only you can cure it......or EA can give you a crash course in it when they turn your beautiful (stolen) CC into cardboard boxes. Personally, I'll take Google's free education vs. spending simoleans which now have real world value, myself.