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Question: Do you support the sale of hacked/compromised/unauthorized transfer of accounts
Yes, I support these sales - 17 (18.3%)
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January 03, 2013, 05:15:18 AM
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Good work, Shep.

Selling (or buying) account information is perfectly legal and moral. It's the hacking that's the problem, and I don't know if we've proven torac a hacker, but he's certainly selling 'hot' info, and seems to know it. Time for a scammer tag, at minimum, I think.

buying/selling account information is only legal if ToS or Admin of the respective websites permit it.   There is precedent though in certain areas for the transfer of property contained within an account (first-sale doctrine should apply to transfer games from one account holder to another account holder), but the account itself is usually owned by the business, website owner, or individual that administers the userdb.

Check out my post earlier in this thread for some discussion about this topic.

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=132038.msg1426644#msg1426644

Good point. I amend my previous statement to say "usually legal and perfectly moral." I believe the breach of TOS only applies to the first seller (ie the original account holder), as well. Hacked accounts are still verboten, of course.

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January 03, 2013, 10:38:23 AM
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Good work, Shep.

Selling (or buying) account information is perfectly legal and moral. It's the hacking that's the problem, and I don't know if we've proven torac a hacker, but he's certainly selling 'hot' info, and seems to know it. Time for a scammer tag, at minimum, I think.
I am not a scammer, you idiot, I always refund anyone can ask for refund for any reason whatsoever if they are not happy with what they buy, I am not a hacker, my accounts are safe and logit, you ban me in mistake, you made huge mistake, you ruin your own forum, If I get banned so easy anyone can get banned, this forum is a mess, no leadership, no dictators, no power, this forum is just another forum on the internet, it is a useless one with no long-term.
I will create my own bitcoin forum and I will be true admin there. ANyone will be welcome, fuck bitcointalk again, theymos you are not a leader, you help me with nothing, you only fucked me, theymos you are NOBODY and mean nothing to me, I tried to help you build the forum better and more awesome with more donations, but you banned me in the first 1 month, suicide bomber what you are tha'ts what you are theymos, a suicider.

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January 03, 2013, 10:53:45 AM
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Wow, so much drama.

I'm almost compelled to donate to bitcointalk over torac's postings, but it seems like the funds are not used for anything of value at the moment.
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January 03, 2013, 11:35:30 AM
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I haven't seen any offer you are describing here on bitcointalk. Can you post link to some examples?

There are good reasons to think that torac is selling hacked accounts.

Selling hacked accounts is not banned by any current forum policy. Selling the accounts is not illegal as far as I know (maybe the act of hacking the accounts is illegal). I'm always reluctant to go against the forum's policy of free speech, and in this case I'm not even sure that the trades are immoral.

Theymos, I understand you're for free speech. But in this matter, you're stretching it..

If anyone gets access to an account they don't own, that's something that they should not do, and then selling this information to others, that is something that everybody should clearly see is unethical and wrong.

If you had a cabin in the woods that you hadn't used for a long time, and then somebody found the key to it and sold it to anyone, I don't think you'd be thrilled about it.

Free speech is good and all, but this is not about free speech, it is more about theft.

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January 03, 2013, 11:37:43 AM
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I haven't seen any offer you are describing here on bitcointalk. Can you post link to some examples?

There are good reasons to think that torac is selling hacked accounts.

Selling hacked accounts is not banned by any current forum policy. Selling the accounts is not illegal as far as I know (maybe the act of hacking the accounts is illegal). I'm always reluctant to go against the forum's policy of free speech, and in this case I'm not even sure that the trades are immoral. On one hand:

- The victims probably never notice.
- If the victims do notice, they can probably get their accounts back without too much hassle.
- There is no violence or deception involved.
- torac is only selling information. Some part of me thinks that selling information can never be wrong.

On the other hand, there are victims...

Also, I can never know with absolute certainty whether someone is selling hacked accounts or just reselling accounts that have been given to them willingly. (Reselling willingly-given accounts is OK. The forum clearly has no obligation to enforce the terms of service for other sites. Otherwise common trades such as Steam trades or PayPal transfers would be disallowed.) This makes a ban on trading hacked accounts potentially messy to enforce. Should I ban trades that are only probably trades of hacked accounts?

torac is donating a portion of proceeds from each sale back to the site, which creates a conflict of interest in acting against torac

The forum is non-profit. I don't get anything whether he donates or not.

What boggles my mind is you would think after the cosbycoin hack of bitcointalk.org in 2011 that Theymos would not be receptive to this type of activity taking place on his own forum.  I don't think Theymos would want someone selling his login credentials on another forum.

I wouldn't like it, but I'm not sure that selling the credentials would be immoral.

Some day, a company with enough resources may have law enforcement involved, and we know how that goes.

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January 03, 2013, 11:40:38 AM
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Theymos, I understand you're for free speech. But in this matter, you're stretching it..

If anyone gets access to an account they don't own, that's something that they should not do, and then selling this information to others

Are you against WikiLeaks as well?
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Theymos, I understand you're for free speech. But in this matter, you're stretching it..

If anyone gets access to an account they don't own, that's something that they should not do, and then selling this information to others

Are you against WikiLeaks as well?


Another troll taking it out of context and derailing from the orginal discussion.
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January 03, 2013, 01:21:49 PM
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Anyways. This guy is selling the exact same stuff as Mr. Choleric Hacker.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134194.0

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134044.0

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134194.0

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134223.0

In the interest of equality he should be shut down too.

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Next one: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134287.0

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134244.0

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January 03, 2013, 04:51:22 PM
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Theymos, I understand you're for free speech. But in this matter, you're stretching it..

If anyone gets access to an account they don't own, that's something that they should not do, and then selling this information to others

Are you against WikiLeaks as well?

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January 03, 2013, 06:35:55 PM
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I haven't seen any offer you are describing here on bitcointalk. Can you post link to some examples?

There are good reasons to think that torac is selling hacked accounts.

Selling hacked accounts is not banned by any current forum policy. Selling the accounts is not illegal as far as I know (maybe the act of hacking the accounts is illegal). I'm always reluctant to go against the forum's policy of free speech, and in this case I'm not even sure that the trades are immoral. On one hand:

- The victims probably never notice.
- If the victims do notice, they can probably get their accounts back without too much hassle.
- There is no violence or deception involved.
- torac is only selling information. Some part of me thinks that selling information can never be wrong.

On the other hand, there are victims...

Also, I can never know with absolute certainty whether someone is selling hacked accounts or just reselling accounts that have been given to them willingly. (Reselling willingly-given accounts is OK. The forum clearly has no obligation to enforce the terms of service for other sites. Otherwise common trades such as Steam trades or PayPal transfers would be disallowed.) This makes a ban on trading hacked accounts potentially messy to enforce. Should I ban trades that are only probably trades of hacked accounts?

torac is donating a portion of proceeds from each sale back to the site, which creates a conflict of interest in acting against torac

The forum is non-profit. I don't get anything whether he donates or not.

What boggles my mind is you would think after the cosbycoin hack of bitcointalk.org in 2011 that Theymos would not be receptive to this type of activity taking place on his own forum.  I don't think Theymos would want someone selling his login credentials on another forum.

I wouldn't like it, but I'm not sure that selling the credentials would be immoral.

Theymos, is there really a question and do we need a "forum policy" to know right from wrong?  Stealing is stealing.  Why would you want this forum or Bitcoin associated with that?

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January 03, 2013, 06:40:48 PM
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Theymos, is there really a question and do we need a "forum policy" to know right from wrong?  Stealing is stealing.  Why would you want this forum or Bitcoin associated with that?

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Bitcoin already has too many nefarious connections.

I don't care what you use your bitcoins for and it is non of my business but I for one would strongly prefer the forum policy only allow discussion of issues  that do not promote activites that generally and broadly accepted to be illegal or illicit.

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January 03, 2013, 06:51:59 PM
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Theymos, is there really a question and do we need a "forum policy" to know right from wrong?  Stealing is stealing.  Why would you want this forum or Bitcoin associated with that?

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Bitcoin already has too many nefarious connections.

I don't care what you use your bitcoins for and it is non of my business but I for one would strongly prefer the forum policy only allow discussion of issues  that do not promote activites that generally and broadly accepted to be illegal or illicit.
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January 03, 2013, 06:54:41 PM
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I consider said activities dispicable and do wish that we as a community can persuade the sellers to conduct there buisness elsewhere.

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Note that all threads pertaining to the selling of such accounts and invites have been locked due to the dubious legality of such actions. Please report if you find any similar threads.
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January 03, 2013, 07:43:13 PM
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Note that all threads pertaining to the selling of such accounts and invites have been locked due to the dubious legality of such actions. Please report if you find any similar threads.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=86299.0
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January 03, 2013, 08:12:50 PM
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No, because the purchaser of the account can have it taken away with zero recourse. Might as well donate their bitcoins to a black hole.

Saying that you don't trust someone because of their behavior is completely valid.
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January 04, 2013, 05:53:51 AM
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What state is bitcointalk.org incorporated under to get non-profit status?

Introducing constraints to the economy only serves to limit what can be economical.
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What state is bitcointalk.org incorporated under to get non-profit status?

The forum isn't registered with any government. You seem to assume that no organization can operate on a non-profit basis without permission from a government, which is a strange assumption to make.

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supernatural is selling his own invites/accounts as far as I can tell. We're not going to enforce the terms of service of other sites. Terms of service are not recognized as legally binding in all countries, and it would be too difficult to understand and enforce all such terms.

Theymos does this forum's policy of "free speech" allow publicly posting personally identifiable information of suspected hackers selling hacked/compromised accounts?

Yes.

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