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How do you equate doing harm to another person with reducing revenue for a collection of entities (Amazon and its sellers)? Consider the small startup eating a
by acgourley 18y ago
How do you equate doing harm to another person with reducing revenue for a collection of entities (Amazon and its sellers)?
Consider the small startup eating an established business's lunch; surely the startup isn't liable for the losses of the larger company.
- stcredzero 18y agoReducing income by out-competing another company in a transparent and open marketplace is one thing. Reducing income by manipulating information in a deceptive fashion (thereby making the marketplace less transparent) is another thing entirely. There were ways Weev could've made his hacking skill known without such negative impacts. He cared more about the notoriety than preventing harm to bystanders. (Though to be fair, he probably has rationalizations for why these weren't "real" negative impacts.)
- acgourley 18y agoThe post I was referring to said: "But I can't think of a single reason he shouldn't be sued. There's no way he didn't forsee loss of revenue for Amazon." I never said what he did was ethical, but I'm trying to say that just because an event reduces revenue doesn't mean its something that can be sued over. IANAL but it would have to be on the grounds of libel. (Which is likely, but parent never brought that up)