Just about everyone has a set of rules they follow, everyone picks and chooses what rules they want to follow, few if any people follow all the rules given to them, criminals just disobey a specific subset of rules. And people who regularly participate in large illegal transactions generally want to maintain their reputation.
Try using the audio from a pirated telecined/cam film for your own pirated video, and then stand back in awe as the wrath of a chunk of the pirate community is brought down upon you. They will call you a thief with no sense of irony. I use "you" in the general sense, lol, I don't mean you specifically.:)
IIRC a top executive from a company like Norton, or McAfee, was convicted of giving a major pirate group a lot of software in exchange for access to their inner sanctum of pirated goods.
Apparently there
Depends on who they are aligned with. If its just some slightly malevolent nerds in a bedroom, I would say they have no power of enforcement at all.
If they are tied to some real world organized crime ring then they have significant enforcement power.
If you are buying data from a broker, and theres a hells angel sitting in the room with him, you know damn well, that biker can insist on any damn TOS he wants.
Though I'm more inclined to think that any buyer with $7mil spare to spend on corporate espionage is m
Stolen data has a terms of sale they expect to be honored?? In what universe do they expect to enforce? Honor among thieves?
If I've got a CD and I ask you to pay $14 for it, you'd be pretty dumb to think I didn't have a few more to sell.
On the other hand, if I have some kind of unique IP that I want to sell for millions, I'd be the dumb one if I didn't expect you to want an exclusive.
Remember, also, that the customer is the kind of person who knows how to reach/talk to hacker groups, which means there's a good chance they can find out where you live, and they clearly have a lot of money and not an excess of fear of the law.
You can not get anything worthwhile done without raising a sweat.
-- The First Law Of Thermodynamics
Not to be resold (Score:2)
Apparently part of the sale agreement was that the data was not to be resold.
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It wasn't actually sold, just licensed for use on one computer.
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Maybe CD Projekt Red bought it :-)
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You haven't talked a lot with many thieves... (Score:2)
Just about everyone has a set of rules they follow, everyone picks and chooses what rules they want to follow, few if any people follow all the rules given to them, criminals just disobey a specific subset of rules. And people who regularly participate in large illegal transactions generally want to maintain their reputation.
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Having money, or even being perceived as having a lot of money, cures most reputation problems, as the entire US recently learned.
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> Just about everyone has a set of rules they follow
Except Democrats. They apply the rules differently to others vs themselves.
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Amen, the democrat party departed reality long long ago.
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You misspelled "Republicans", who have a patent on it.
Try using the audio from a pirated telecined film (Score:2)
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Depends on who they are aligned with. If its just some slightly malevolent nerds in a bedroom, I would say they have no power of enforcement at all.
If they are tied to some real world organized crime ring then they have significant enforcement power.
If you are buying data from a broker, and theres a hells angel sitting in the room with him, you know damn well, that biker can insist on any damn TOS he wants.
Though I'm more inclined to think that any buyer with $7mil spare to spend on corporate espionage is m
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Stolen data has a terms of sale they expect to be honored?? In what universe do they expect to enforce? Honor among thieves?
If I've got a CD and I ask you to pay $14 for it, you'd be pretty dumb to think I didn't have a few more to sell.
On the other hand, if I have some kind of unique IP that I want to sell for millions, I'd be the dumb one if I didn't expect you to want an exclusive.
Remember, also, that the customer is the kind of person who knows how to reach/talk to hacker groups, which means there's a good chance they can find out where you live, and they clearly have a lot of money and not an excess of fear of the law.