Originally Posted by
kewlJ
You guys are getting all fancy and technical. The mistake made was when they tried to make it into a "hacking case". It wasn't a hacking case. The judge was right, nobody hacked anything. The case that it should have been was a case about theft. This was the big mistake. They didn't need to make it about any more than that. They accepted money under false pretenses (that they had won it playing higher stakes than they actually had). legally....THAT is theft.
Oh come on. If it was really 'theft' or 'cheating' it would have been prosecuted in Nevada. They don't take kindly to stealing from a Casino in Las Vegas. Tell us your theory as to why they were guilty of theft
but weren't prosecuted in Nevada? My guess it that no crime matched what they did.
They played the machine and the machine grossly overpaid them. That's a malfunction and the Casino didn't have to pay them. But they did. The players didn't have any inside knowledge. They didn't open the machine, steal chips, cap a bet, mark cards or anything commonly called cheating. They played the game and it overpaid them. The Manufacturer should have done a better job of testing before they ever put a flawed gaming device in a Casino. It's like if you found a dealer that kept paying everybody double on blackjacks because he's an idiot. Do you think they'd arrest you for theft? Nope. They'd fix the machine...I mean fire the dealer.....because it's not your problem if THEY don't pay you correctly...and it's certainly not criminal.