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by jdoliner
3084 days ago
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Technically you're right Microsoft didn't steal anything, they just did Business. Which often feels to the common man like theft when Business is done as well as Microsoft did it in their heyday. On the other hand technically Oceanghost didn't steal anything either. He just customered a little better than Microsoft was counting on. Seems like fair play to me and I'm not sure how using the word theft is fantasy-land justification. It's not theft in the strictest legal sense, but it's a very common usage of theft. |
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That's like saying if a business left their door unlocked everything's free.
>It's not theft in the strictest legal sense
It's fraud.
The law doesn't think you're so clever, make no mistake, this scheme is illegal. I posted another comment where a woman was convicted of wire fraud for doing essentially exactly the same thing.
The intent to defraud matters as well as the scale (which goes hand in hand with intent).