What if UMaple takes a page out of Sony's playbook and pays its debt with in-game items?
I don't see how that's any less reasonable than providing free music to people you've rootkitted.
1) Imagine that 'working' slot machines have a 1% chance of winning. Imagine that a 'broken' slot machine has a 0.01% chance of winning.
If 1,000 gamblers played on the broken slot machine before someone realized that there was a defect, would the casino spend the time and resources to track down each of the affected players and offer them a refund for the money they lost?
2) Imagine that 'working' slot machines have a 1% chance of winning. Imagine that a 'broken' slot machine has a 10% chance of winning.
If 1,000 gamblers played on the broken slot machine before someone realized that there was a defect, would the casino spend the time and resources to track down each of the affected players and insist that they refund the casino?
The material difference, then, between these two scenarios and the one from the article is the user's ability to identify a problem.
3) A child approaches a candy machine and inserts a quarter. A handful of candy comes out. Usually, only a quarter of a handful comes out, so the child repeats the process of adding a quarter and receiving a handful of candy several times.
Did this child commit a crime?
4) Imagine you are in a super market, and you put 3 boxes of cereal in your cart with a listed price of $5/box. When you get to the cash, the cashier scans the 3 boxes of cereal and they show up as being $1.99 (an unadvertised special?). If you don't mention to the cashier that the list price was $5, and rather you go buy 3 more boxes, are you commiting a crime?
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What if UMaple takes a page out of Sony's playbook and pays its debt with in-game items? I don't see how that's any less reasonable than providing free music to people you've rootkitted.
1) Imagine that 'working' slot machines have a 1% chance of winning. Imagine that a 'broken' slot machine has a 0.01% chance of winning.
If 1,000 gamblers played on the broken slot machine before someone realized that there was a defect, would the casino spend the time and resources to track down each of the affected players and offer them a refund for the money they lost?
2) Imagine that 'working' slot machines have a 1% chance of winning. Imagine that a 'broken' slot machine has a 10% chance of winning.
If 1,000 gamblers played on the broken slot machine before someone realized that there was a defect, would the casino spend the time and resources to track down each of the affected players and insist that they refund the casino?
The material difference, then, between these two scenarios and the one from the article is the user's ability to identify a problem.
3) A child approaches a candy machine and inserts a quarter. A handful of candy comes out. Usually, only a quarter of a handful comes out, so the child repeats the process of adding a quarter and receiving a handful of candy several times.
Did this child commit a crime?
4) Imagine you are in a super market, and you put 3 boxes of cereal in your cart with a listed price of $5/box. When you get to the cash, the cashier scans the 3 boxes of cereal and they show up as being $1.99 (an unadvertised special?). If you don't mention to the cashier that the list price was $5, and rather you go buy 3 more boxes, are you commiting a crime?