On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Tim Schofield <[email protected]>wrote:
> If I hack into amazons servers and download the credit card details of > all their customers, the law would say I have stolen that data. I dont > have to remove them, I still have stolen them and I would be charged > with the theft of that data. If you break into someones offices and > take copies of their private information from their filing cabinets, > that is theft. > Tim - I couldn't help but notice that your examples say "...hack into...and download..." and "...break into...and take...". Is it your understanding that Badru performed any of these (obviously illegal) actions to come into possession of the yradio content? Your argument seems a lot like a straw man argument [1], because as far as I can tell no one has disputed that "hacking into" or "breaking into" to access property or private information is illegal. Regards, Gerald [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
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