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by DaFranker 4048 days ago
Even if the money were sentient and capable of arguing for itself and defending its own case better than a good lawyer, here's what would happen: You can only authorize a legal person to use computer equipment. It is impossible to authorize a pile of money to use computer equipment. Therefore any computer equipment that is used by the pile of money (including that of the owner of the money) is used without consent, and therefore runs afoul of anti-piracy / anti-hacking laws, and your money will be charged with High Tech Fraud.

Since the money is not a legal person, legal responsibility would probably fall to the owner at the time of the crime (just like it falls to the "owner" of a child, their parents) and you would get punished along with your money. On top of this the money is automatically guilty and must pay reparations and punitives, which means you need to pay more of it as legal guardian of the now-bankrupt money.

And on and on down the rabbit hole it goes...
2 comments
yellowapple 4048 days ago
> Since the money is not a legal person, legal responsibility would probably fall to the owner at the time of the crime (just like it falls to the "owner" of a child, their parents) and you would get punished along with your money.

Right, but at least now you've managed to get yourself involved in the case, meaning that you can now invoke things like "right to counsel", no?

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DaFranker 4047 days ago
Yes, but if you do so you become eligible for charges of Conspiracy for High Tech Fraud, and a Conspiracy charge opens up a whole other can of worms you really don't want to mess with.
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yellowapple 4046 days ago
True, but at least there's now a lawyer involved, so you've got that going, with is nice.

(Which, granted, may or may not be a positive depending on one's opinions of lawyers)

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obsurveyor 4048 days ago
What if the money was incorporated?
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DaFranker 4047 days ago
Oh, then that's simple. The $30,000 USD corporation pays a fine of $374, reparations for the officer's time to the tune of $41.75, and then is severely reprimanded with a warning not to do it again on threat of further monetary retribution.
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