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Re:Peter Molyneux may have just monetized trolling by JackWebbHeller on Sunday April 21, 2013 @08:01AM (#5584597)
> "Its a strange situation where it is legal to do something to a human that is illegal to do to a computer"

What is illegal to do to a computer, in this case...?

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Re:Peter Molyneux may have just monetized trolling by wnight on Sunday April 21, 2013 @11:16AM (#5585089)
I think he means that if you discovered and exploited a bug in a common OS the way farmville manipulated actual minds, you'd be thrown in jail.
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Re:Peter Molyneux may have just monetized trolling by tekromancr on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @06:05PM (#5641117)
That's what I was getting at. You said it better. Thank you.
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