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

[Jason Clifford]

On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 11:58 +0100, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> 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?

How is that really analogous?

Money transferred from account x to account y is no longer in the
possession of account x so there has been a clear transfer of real
property and a deprivation from x of that real property.

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