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Originally Posted by Lee Bartholomew  It's only any good if a device is stolen off it's first owner.
If My details were in a camera that I then sold on ebay, I would not know if it had been stolen from the person who brought it from me, Esp if it was a year or so ago and ebay no longer had the details or it had been sold on 5 times since then. Would the police make that many enquiries for a single camera? Prob not. |
Quite often the police arrest people in posession of multiple camers/laptops/sat-navs and cannot prove any of the stolen. A better way of identifying and tracing stolen goods would reduce the resale value of stolen goods and increase the chance of convictions. Both of these could be expected to increase the risk/reward ratio for thieves and those buying stolen goods. I would hope that would deter some crime.