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What's an example of a fakery that doesn't harm innocent parties? If you pretend a product (or a feature) that doesn't exist exists, then at the very least a co
by petilon 5y ago
What's an example of a fakery that doesn't harm innocent parties? If you pretend a product (or a feature) that doesn't exist exists, then at the very least a competitor is unfairly harmed.
- manquer 5y agoInnocent is perhaps the operative word. If investors expect and/or used to certain amount of fakery they are not "innocent" [1] or if the competitors are doing the same thing they are not necessarily "innocent" either. [1] In this context to take meaning as knowledge, not meaning "not guilty" here.
- CamperBob2 5y agoIf a site like Reddit gets started by creating nonexistent or sock-puppet users, for instance, that's hardly on the same level as falsifying medical tests "just until we get the bugs sorted out."
- richardwhiuk 5y agoThe conviction here was defrauding investors, not defrauding medical tests. If Reddit included those sock-puppet users in their metrics to investors, then that would be roughly equivalent fraud.
- streblo 5y agoIn the legal sense, competition doesn’t qualify as an innocent party.