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An obvious difference between IP theft and muggings, however, is that the later also entails threats of violence (and sometimes even assault & battery). That's
by kinghajj 9y ago
An obvious difference between IP theft and muggings, however, is that the later also entails threats of violence (and sometimes even assault & battery). That's why robbery is generally considered more heinous than burglary, where the victims are typically not present or asleep. I'd agree though that some sort of dollar figure should be attached to the psychological trauma of being mugged, so that great-enough white-collar crimes can also lead to imprisonment.
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- hyperbovine 9y agoI'll bet if you asked most people what they would prefer less, getting beat up or losing $500 million, the would answer the latter.
- dzhiurgis 9y agoWhich distributed among all Google shareholders is $100 each?
- apoorvkumar 9y agoSure. Basically the guy wronged 5 million people, $100 each. Makes it a significantly greater crime than a comparable mugging of a single victim.
- dragonwriter 9y agoWell, no. Distributed among all Alphabet shareholders it is, from the most recent numbers I've seen, about $85 million each from Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and smaller amounts from everyone else.
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- tomc1985 9y agoAlso, in a mugging, the mugged is deprived of whatever was stolen. With IP theft the victim still has use of their IP
- CydeWeys 9y agoThere's a difference between illegally downloading a movie instead of paying for it, and stealing technology and using it to bring a competitor to market. The latter is actually taking market share away from the organization it was stolen from, so they are deprived of something tangible.
- r00fus 9y agoNot if Uber used his stolen IP to out-compete Google. Then the IP would translate directly into a market opportunity loss.