"If you accidentally purchased a bag of M&Ms from Amazon for 500 dollars" - Uber accidentally overcharged people for their taxi rides, and people are outraged [

"If you accidentally purchased a bag of M&Ms from Amazon for 500 dollars" - Uber accidentally overcharged people for their taxi rides, and people are outraged [1]. Will Amazon pay the full price to the original manufacturer (in this case Sony)? I feel like there's a parallel to be made with media piracy in here somewhere. If you could steal a magic Mars bar [2] that didn't deprive someone else of it, why should you still pay for it? I'm not sure that taking advantage of a glitch like this for cheap physical items is ethical, but I can't really express why. I have no such issues with people using Sci-hub, because Elsevier doesn't pay researchers anything. For music my views are very grey - even though piracy does deprive the artist of income today, I would never have discovered many of my favourite bands if I hadn't been able to listen to their music for free (on the radio or from other sources), and I've tried to compensate for their loss by going to hundreds of concerts, buying T-shirts, and supporting the original artist. When Apple takes a 30% cut and the record company takes 65%, the original artist doesn't stand to lose or gain much through record sales, so it doesn't feel "as wrong". Hardware is a lot more finite though, and I would want to be sure the engineers are actually getting paid before taking a deal that seems like someone is getting ripped off. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49031165 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49031165 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6vgkDbMcZc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6vgkDbMcZc