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The legal ramifications are not about "The Attacker". The biggest one is the intentional evasion of securities law by the slock.it and the DAO creators. But additional legal ramifications of a hard frok are that jurisdictions may start turning to the Ethereum Foundation and ethereum developers to alter contract balances in similar ways to this proposal for instances they are interested in.

"But additional legal ramifications of a hard frok are that jurisdictions may start turning to the Ethereum Foundation and ethereum developers to alter contract balances in similar ways to this proposal for instances they are interested in."

They could do that even if there wasn't a hard fork.

Correct, yes they could. But this makes it more obvious that it is possible to successfully pursue, despite previous claims of things like "immutability" and "decentralization".

I think the legal ramifications would be what happens when the Dao investors lose their money, if anything.

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