And to head off the endless meaningless objections about how fraud is a legal term (why that means you cannot use it in conversation, I have no idea, but...).
I am withdrawing my claim that selling what people can get free elsewhere without making them aware they can get it for free elsewhere is fraud. Instead I am coining a new word called vraud.
Which co-incidentally has the following definition
"deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage. "
And I am now claiming that selling what people can get free elsewhere without making them aware they can get it for free elsewhere is vraud.
EDIT: Oh and vraud is pronounced in the Germanic way with v sounding like f.
EDIT2: Also the fact that my definition of vraud happens to coincide with the dictionary definition of fraud is purely co-incidental, honest.
Last edited by kovidgoyal; 12-07-2010 at 05:18 PM.
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