Technomage wrote on Aug 14
th, 2020 at 11:54pm:
There is the matter of a tax case that could be brought by the IRS if the government can prove the sellers of the duped boxes never reported income generated from them. An income tax case is more likely than a criminal case or a civil case assuming SSG claims the boxes aren't worth anything.
While I won't pretend to be anyone's accountant(except Strake's), it wouldn't be that hard for these guys to simply report their money and pay the taxes on it. Online business. Done and dusted. Government not going to get involved if they get their cut.
Here's an interesting case that's been brought up on the vault before, and unlike kisty's dumbass links, actually IS related:
https://www.wired.com/2014/10/cheating-video-poker/The TL:DR version is two guys discovered a glitch in the software running on video poker machines and took the casinos for a ton of money. (no one knows exactly how much but it was on the order of millions). Legal actions were brought against them for theft, but the cases were eventually dropped because...
..wait for it...
...abusing a software glitch does not constitute "theft"
Now unlike technomage I did not go to law school, but I understand there is a concept in our legal system called precedent? Whereby if a court finds that abusing a software glitch is not considered a crime, future people who abuse glitches cannot be tried for it?
Also in the above case: the guys paid their taxes on the money. One of the guys even got to keep it because he had better lawyers. The other was pretty much bullied into giving his up even though legally he could have kept it.
Technomage wrote on Aug 14
th, 2020 at 11:54pm:
OnePercenter IS an attorney, however, and your question might be better directed to him.
Question: is OnePercenter ACTUALLY an attorney, or are you just trying to get people to PM him because it's funny?