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Old Jul 13, 2010 | 7:09 am
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Originally Posted by SteveinA2
Thanks for all the feedback. I'm thinking $3-$4 per 1000 points is pretty close

I did laugh at the above post. It can't be confidential information once it reaches the public domain. So any posting on here by legal definition is no longer confidential.
1) while the assumption that points are cheap is correct, the pricing above is way off

2) I personally feel I have a decent understanding of the laws of our country but am certainly not even close to being a lawyer but I dont believe your argument about confidential and proprietary information no longer being such once it's posted in the public demain would hold up in court - it's kind of like saying it's ok to murder someone because the were dead after the fact so it really wasn't murder in the first place
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