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I have just found your netbook on the backseat of a taxi with it already logged into your bank account. So that makes it okay to transfer your life savings to

• steholmes 13y ago
  Not the same situation at all.
  • kefka 13y ago
    No, his netbook+bank account situation does indeed show similarities to the main question. If you read between the lines, it amounts to "What is the minimum legal standard I have to follow to make money on this questionably gotten X?" That's a sad question to have to ask.
    • Dylan16807 13y ago
      The blame for the sad situation goes to stock markets and stock market regulations in the first place. They make it illegal to know things about companies.
• pbnjay 13y ago
  no, that would be wire fraud...
• Dylan16807 13y ago
  No, this is about whether it's okay for you to remember how much money is in the account, and act on that in some manner in the future. Nobody is stealing anything. They can have the pieces of paper back if they want them.
  • ck2 13y ago
    Okay, I found your netbook with your entire life's work of research, literally decades, into a new material which apparently you are about to patent. So I will just email myself a copy of your work and patent it before you can. No harm then right, it is just a copy.
    • Dylan16807 13y ago
      You're trying too hard to stretch things. The situation is not about taking ownership of the pages, or copying the pages, it's about making a decision based on the pages. So you could be the first person to break the news of my amazing new invention while I am filing the patent, or something. I might be disgruntled but it's my fault for leaving the netbook there. It's not like you'd be able to patent something you didn't invent without tremendous piles of fraud.