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Uh, wasn't this fraud? And isn't that criminal? As in jail time not just being fired? If I said I had a fake partnership with Google and started calling up the
by Aloisius 15y ago
Uh, wasn't this fraud? And isn't that criminal? As in jail time not just being fired?
If I said I had a fake partnership with Google and started calling up their customers for my competing website, I'm pretty certain I would go to jail.
- jrockway 15y agoI'm pretty certain I would go to jail. I'll take the other side of that bet. Do you know how much money it costs to send someone to prison? Quite a lot. And that doesn't include how much it costs to keep them there.
- pbhjpbhj 15y agoThing is that Google (and those like them) bring a lot of revenue to boost your GDP. Picking up a cell-phone left in a bar shouldn't get a whole platoon of police officers mobilised either (eg http://www.pcworld.com/article/195006/police_seize_gizmodo_editors_tech_gear.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/195006/police_seize_gizmodo_e...). Aside: the downvoting of unpopular but nonetheless cogent and well put arguments here is getting rather silly; will pg step in to sort this out. IMO this has got worse and worse since comment scores were hidden.