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So IP theft is okay?

• dvh 8y ago
  It's not a theft. Whatever information they took from hacked computers probably stayed on those computers, why would they erased it. It's copying. Not a theft. Theft is when someone break in to your apartment and steal your CD collection leaving you with nothing.
  • c22 8y ago
    If you're a corporate entity and the copying of data you paid to assemble leaves you with no competitive advantage it's a lot closer to theft than your run of the mill "copying is theft" assertion.
  • rdlecler1 8y ago
    It’s theft if you use that information to create products from that data for which you didn’t have to pay R&D for. This is what IP theft is. Don’t muddy the waters with a technical description of the crime.