Not related to the subject of the post, but for anyone interested OP seems to run a stock portfolio tracker for dividend investors, which he mentioned briefly (his blog mostly concerns his investing endeavors). It seemed pretty cool to me and is in need of support, so I'll leave the link here:
I exploited existing YouTube videos with a fake Patreon profile
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#32Love this, I run a 500k a year company gonna do 1 million this year (with our run rate) hmu and let’s collaborate/let me help you for free
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
A dead comment asked if stealing 100 dollars if fine if you give it back. So I'll chip in that for basic theft, one of the core elements is intent to permanently deprive the original owner. So if someone steals money, changes their mind, and then returns it, that's still theft. And taking money to spend, with a promise of returning money later, still counts as theft. But if the intent all along was to return it the n…
> But if the intent all along was to return it the next day, stored safely the entire time, that's not theft. Legally, this isn't even remotely true. If you deprive someone of their legal possessions without permission, even with intent to return it later, you are guilty of theft. There is no loophole that allows you to temporarily steal things as long as you intend to return them. Intent only comes into play if the…
Permanent deprivation seems to be the more common standard as far as I can tell, not just deprivation.
The difference isn't a loophole.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
> But if the intent all along was to return it the next day, stored safely the entire time, that's not theft. Legally, this isn't even remotely true. If you deprive someone of their legal possessions without permission, even with intent to return it later, you are guilty of theft. There is no loophole that allows you to temporarily steal things as long as you intend to return them. Intent only comes into play if the…
Permanent deprivation seems to be the more common standard as far as I can tell, not just deprivation. The difference isn't a loophole.
No, theft is theft, regardless of whether or not you return the item later.
There is no loophole that allows people to temporarily steal things as long as they kindly return them later.
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#35"I discovered this neat new hack called 'fraud'"
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#36"I discovered this neat new hack called 'fraud'"
This post is wild. The author does not seem to realize they are confessing to a relatively serious crime, and even calls it a "profitable business"!
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#37"I discovered this neat new hack called 'fraud'"
This post is wild. The author does not seem to realize they are confessing to a relatively serious crime, and even calls it a "profitable business"!
The writer at the end refunds the money and messages Patreon to fix the issue, I think that would go massively in his favour in the rare change it ended up in front of a judge.
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#38The technical summary here seems to be: patreon shouldn't allow usernames/url slugs to be reused.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Permanent deprivation seems to be the more common standard as far as I can tell, not just deprivation. The difference isn't a loophole.
No, theft is theft, regardless of whether or not you return the item later. There is no loophole that allows people to temporarily steal things as long as they kindly return them later.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
This post is wild. The author does not seem to realize they are confessing to a relatively serious crime, and even calls it a "profitable business"!
The writer at the end refunds the money and messages Patreon to fix the issue, I think that would go massively in his favour in the rare change it ended up in front of a judge.
Legal consequences aren't the only form of consequences. In this post the author mentions their (legitimate) business.
If I was a potential customer looking into said business and found this post I would be very offput by the lack of morals. The strongest condemnation we receive for literal theft is they "didn't want to", the author barely even seems to understand why their behavior is immoral.