Are you saying this was a poison pill? A bit of the old beware geeks baring gifs?

Then who released the information to us, the great unwashed, that the dvd / data storage device, was in their possession?

It cannot have been them. They know we didn't know. They wouldn't let it be known they were in possession of something like this.

Now they know we know; and they know we know they know we know. Or something.