> I've spent a lot of time around lawyers and judges and I can tell you they have absolutely no tolerance for the kind of "well, actually" smart-asses that the

> I've spent a lot of time around lawyers and judges and I can tell you they have absolutely no tolerance for the kind of "well, actually" smart-asses that the tech community excels at churning out. It sounds like the smart-asses' only mistake is thinking that the same clever lawyering that protects the rich and powerful will work for them as well. The guys who put a keylogger in pirated software were in the wrong, but after seeing Sony do basically the same thing and get away with it[1], I can see how they might think that courts will give you a free pass if you come up with some loophole or something. Martin Shkreli, like the rest of us, has no-doubt seen the rich and powerful flout the law and walk away clean after invoking some ridiculous legalism. Then he got rich, and figured he could do the same. Turns out that he's either not rich enough yet, or power flows from something other than money. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...