I also know what you were referring to but as you so kindly put it we were following my chain of logic and my logic doesn't presuppose that scanning is reason enough to have claim to something. I said it was my actions, rolling the mission and creating the wrecks by destroying the npcs which gave me sole claim to those wrecks. In order for the intention of scanning for profit to be justification for a claim to an object one would also be able to say that simply through the intention of running a mission to loot and salvage means I have claim to it..

remember back when I said level 4 missions were poorly designed? I cannot think of a single other way of making money in EVE that is not subject to competition or depletion. Exploration sites are limited in number. Asteroid belts can get mined out. Trading gets less profitable the more people infest a single market. Missions, however, have no form of competition. Missions scale infinitely, with as many bounties, loot and LPs as there is demand for. Ninjasalvaging at least partially introduces competition into it.