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Re:How the Flash Crash Trader’s $50M Fortune Vanished by oh_sigh on Friday February 10, 2017 @03:41PM (#13618703)
If video games have real world financial stakes(say, for professional eSports players like Dota/LoL), should cheating be punishable by jail time?
Re:How the Flash Crash Trader’s $50M Fortune Vanished by alasdair_ on Friday February 10, 2017 @04:36PM (#13619107)
Maybe.

If we are playing poker, and you cheat, you have stolen my money through fraud.

Certainly if I cheat at a casino, I'm likely going to jail.

Re:How the Flash Crash Trader’s $50M Fortune Vanished by al_chemist on Saturday February 11, 2017 @07:46AM (#13622379)
Bluffing in poker is not cheating, is it? This guy bluffed that he want to sell when he did not.
Re:How the Flash Crash Trader’s $50M Fortune Vanished by oh_sigh on Friday February 10, 2017 @05:37PM (#13619535)
I believe if you cheat at a casino, you are just banned and kicked out.

Also, perhaps there is a differentiation between working within the mechanics of a system to cheat, and going around a system to cheat. An example from the esports league would be the difference between using a corner case to shoot through a wall, versus hacking into the server and modifying the code.

Re:How the Flash Crash Trader’s $50M Fortune Vanished by cpwright on Friday February 10, 2017 @06:25PM (#13619826)
If you don't cheat, but do something the casino doesn't approve of you are kicked out. If you actually cheat, and the casino decides it is worth it, you'll have the government come down on you too.
Re:How the Flash Crash Trader’s $50M Fortune Vanished by kolinko on Sunday February 12, 2017 @04:28PM (#13630983)
It actually is.