How exactly does re-broadcasting information already in the public domain become theft?
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Tim Schofield <[email protected]>wrote: > Well Kyle you have a unique definition of theft that I have never come > across before in my 50 years on this planet. > > 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. > > it is not archiving, cloning, or any other of the words that have been > used here, it is theft. > > You are the only person on this list arguing that taking something > that does not belong to you without the permission of the owner is not > theft. The argument of the rest of this list is that it is acceptable > practice as they are being robbed by other people as well. > > -- //MB
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