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tptacek • yesterday at 9:08 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

When you deliberately violate a TOS using deception in order to get money or property from a service, you're committing fraud.

There are plenty of ways to violate a TOS non-remuneratively or without using deception ("deception" is an element of the crime of fraud and has to be proved up in court; it's not simply what the TOS says it is). Those are civil matters, not crime.

The template you want to be working from: lying for money is fraud.


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watwut • yesterday at 9:12 PM

Unless you are facebook, Musk, OpenAI, Antropic, Thiel, ...

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