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Profits, which are as real as your money, because they are both money.



Man that is one tortured definition. The mental gymnastics. Impressive!


Are you claiming that someone copying proprietary trading software cannot lead to a loss of profits?


It's necessary but not sufficient for a loss of profits.

Further I was talking about code in general. To have separate laws or treatment of "financial" code versus "regular" code would be pretty silly. How would you even draw the line between the two?


You must be very good at yoga because that's a huge stretch. Property and intellectual property are completely different things to the point that intellectual property is a misnomer.




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