Insider Trading in Derivatives in Space Opera

SF writer Charles Stross describes a novel he once planned but has decided not to write. It would have been of interest to corporate law types because it basically combined derivatives trading with the plot of the Monty Python short The Crimson Permanent Assurance and that scene from Wall Street in which Bud Fox burgles an office to get inside information. The resulting combo is then set in a space opera involving pirates. It might well have been a fun tool for talking about insider trading law as applied to misappropriation of property rights in information and to derivatives. A great pity we'll never see it.