Friday April 13th, 2012

informationliberation.com

Code Not Physical Property, Court Rules in Goldman Sachs Espionage Case (Wired)
Former Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov, who downloaded source code for the investment firm’s high-speed trading system from the company’s computers, was wrongly charged with theft of property because the code did not qualify as a physical object under a federal theft statute, according to a court opinion published Wednesday.