@dsurkin Right. Catch and kill is not a crime. It is also not fraud. Catch and kill doesn't meet those elements.
It's also common practice, akin to a nondisclosure agreement.
The thing about criminal law is that people have to be on notice. You can't come up with a new theory to criminalize behavior and then charge someone with the crime. We even have a Constitutional protection against that.
So if something is common practice and has never been criminalized, you see the problem.