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inigyouyesterday at 8:32 PM2 repliesview on HN

Why wouldn't they?


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gpmyesterday at 8:39 PM

Because the legal system does, in fact, have teeth. And those teeth actually deploy pretty readily. Especially when the people whose trade secrets you would be violating are gargantuan companies with enough resources that the cost of a lawsuit is a rounding error.

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ghshephardyesterday at 8:38 PM

Because the value obtained from doing so is unlikely to exceed the cost of the lawsuits if they were ever caught doing so.