Is there a tutorial on 'making a shared power bank your own'? Lawyer: Suspected of abetting a crime

News from this site on July 22. According to a report from Beijing Youth Daily today, some netizens told a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily that many merchants posted on the second-hand commodity trading platform "Keep shared power banks as your own without spending any money." The tutorial claims that you can turn common shared power banks on the market into your own without spending a penny.

▲ Screenshot of the second-hand commodity trading platform. Below, the same reporter went to two malls according to the "tutorials" provided by the merchants and rented two shared power banks of different brands. After following the "tutorial" to contact the platform's customer service, the customer service staff of both companies ended the rental order without returning the power bank.
In this regard, the customer service of a shared power bank platform stated that some customers do have problems after renting power banks. In order to protect the privacy of customers, power banks will not track real-time locations. The customer service of another shared power bank platform said that after customers make complaints, the platform will give priority to helping users solve problems, so they will choose to trust customers first. In response to such problems, customer service will provide feedback and verification to superiors to strengthen management in a timely manner.
Han Xiao, a lawyer at Beijing Kangda Law Firm, said that subjectively the perpetrator had the purpose of illegal possession, and objectively used loopholes and the trust of the platform to take the shared power bank as his own, which is consistent with the behavioral characteristics of secret theft and objectively constitutes theft. Behavior, under certain conditions, may constitute the crime of theft.
In addition, the behavior of merchants who sell such "appropriate" tutorials online is suspected of abetting crimes, and under special circumstances may also constitute an accomplice in the crime of theft. In addition, if a merchant provides direct guidance to criminals, their behavior may also violate the Public Security Administration Punishment Law.

As of the publication of this article, a second-hand trading platform still has some tutorials on "making shared power banks your own" for sale, and some merchants have advertised "decoded and rechargeable".

The above is the detailed content of Is there a tutorial on 'making a shared power bank your own'? Lawyer: Suspected of abetting a crime. For more information, please follow other related articles on the PHP Chinese website!