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by majormajor 1488 days ago
If you do a promotion for giving away free food, and your smart contract accidentally allows someone to get a free sandwich every minute instead of once a day, is it so obvious that someone using your promotion more than once a day is "stealing"?

Ever use a different email address to sign up for a different free trial, say? Let alone people sharing Netflix accounts... where do you draw the line around "stealing" here?

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> is it so obvious that someone using your promotion more than once a day is "stealing"?

Yes. This is very obviously stealing, particularly if the promotion said it was for use once a day.

Edit: Also, sharing your netflix password may also very well be illegal: https://www.lawjournalnewsletters.com/sites/lawjournalnewsle...

This reminds me of the Pepsi fighter jet affair[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico,_Inc.