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> If I steal your car and sell it for $300, If you steal my car, I no longer have a car. I would need to go out and buy another car to replace it. If you copy
by humanrebar 9y ago
> If I steal your car and sell it for $300,
If you steal my car, I no longer have a car. I would need to go out and buy another car to replace it.
If you copy my data (a photo, a song, a film), I haven't lost the original. Only my business model has been affected, which was based on scarcity of the data.
- icebraining 9y agoBut why does that mean the loss is bounded by how much money he happens to have made running the site? I'm not seeing the link.