[Gllug] Uh oh, ministers consider "anti file-sharing laws"

[Bruce Richardson]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 11:58:07AM +0100, Martin wrote:
> Jason Clifford wrote:
> > Fundamental to the concept of theft is deprivation of the object
> 
> 
> Rubbish.  Money gets routinely stolen without any physical object 
> changing hands.
> 
> Is hacking into a bank and transferring money elsewhere somehow a lesser 
> form of stealing than, say, taking a wallet from a locker, just because 
> nothing physical was involved?  "Wealth infringement" perhaps?

Jason said nothing about a *physical* object; you introduced that
concept.  At best you are misunderstanding him, at worst constructing a
straw-man argument.


-- 
Bruce

Bitterly it mathinketh me, that I spent mine wholle lyf in the lists
against the ignorant.  -- Roger Bacon, "Doctor Mirabilis"
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