It's hardly victimless-- when you lie to get something of value that would otherwise go to other people, and then sell it, you're ripping those people off.

No one lost anything here. No one is worse off than had this not happened.

At worst rent seekers didn’t get to collect rent for something that cost them nothing. An imaginary commodity, a literal number.

> No one lost anything here. At worst rent seekers didn’t get to collect rent for something that cost them nothing.

This was your original comment.

The opposite is true here: a person received addresses at low costs reserved for people who don't have any addressing of their own, and then sold the addresses for millions of dollars to companies who already have a lot of addresses and would be ineligible for this.

They pretended to be dozens of new companies to do this. They filed false affidavits where they swore facts that were untrue.

Meanwhile companies actually eligible for ARIN's initial block policy had to wait indefinitely because this scalper had snatched up all the inventory. Were they not harmed?