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I agree. I am not selling anything and do not advertise anything. I just
was advising that whining complainer that he could do something if he
wanted to. He kept requesting more info. If you read my responses that he
posted you will see I never tried to sell him anything, I just answered his
questions. Also, I responded in a private manner, that crybaby made it a
public forum. I'm sure he's a loser trader like he's a loser in life.
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> From: Scientific Approaches <sci@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Omega Mailing List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: ever been sued by dbc...they have deep pockets i suspect!
> Date: Thursday, December 18, 1997 2:18 PM
>
> Preston Morrow wrote:
>
> > should have known...sounds clearly either illegal,
> > theft, or at the very least a violation of the
> > subscriber's contract with dbc
> >
> > seems to me the omega list needs a code of conduct
> > or an ethics statement to prohibit this sort of thing
> > (i never-the-less would like to minimize my data
> > costs...legally)...or course BARRY SMALL (from who
> > knows where) has not advertised on the list...yet...
>
> The DBC BMI data-feed is not the only one data can be stolen from. Any
> scrambled signal that is broadcast, whether it contains trading data, a
> first-run movie, or a prize fight can be decoded and stolen if someone
knows
> how to do it.
>
> Of course, theft of information is just as illegal as the theft of
anything
> else of value. It is not in the best general interests of Omega list
> members to participate in theft or to facilitate theft by telling others
how
> to do it.
>
> However, I would like to point out that software theft is a much bigger
> problem than the theft of real-time trading data. Very few people know
how
> to steal real-time trading data, so very few do it. Most computer users
> know how to steal software, and many, if not most, do it.
>
> Software theft taxes all computer users who pay for software, not just
> software vendors, because vendors have to charge more. They not only
have
> to charge more, in the case of unusually valuable software they have to
> spend development time developing software copy protection systems that
> could be spent adding more capabilities to the software.
>
> Why is it some list members who object to the posting of information
about
> data theft actually encourage software theft (I am not referring here to
> Preston Morrow)? One is no worse or better than the other. They both
are
> wrong for the same reasons. It is not in the best interests of the group
> generally to encourage or facilitate either.
>
> -Bob Brickey
> Scientific Approaches
> sci@xxxxxxxxxx
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