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

John G Walker johngeoffreywalker at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Oct 25 11:08:27 UTC 2007



On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:58:07 +0100 "Martin A. Brooks"
<martin at hinterlands.org> wrote:

> 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?

That deprives the owner of the use just as clearly as if physical money
was stolen. It is completely different from copyright infringement,

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 John
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