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by derobert 5529 days ago
Strikes me as it shouldn't be a question of if she knew, but rather is several months of Internet access worth nearly $200k?

Taking dspillett's example, if what the victim claimed (and even believed) to be a priceless Stradivarius actually turned out to be a modern mass-produced instrument, it'd be deeply unfair to make the defendant pay as if it were.