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> theft You can't steal data unless if you intentionally delete the original after copying, but then that is not really theft as any proper organisation will h
by dependenttypes 6y ago
> theft
You can't steal data unless if you intentionally delete the original after copying, but then that is not really theft as any proper organisation will have backups.
- mc32 6y agoSo someone steals a book from a library isn’t theft because they have secondary copies?
- 0_gravitas 6y agoA better analogy would be photocopying all the contents of one of the books and putting it back on the shelf
- Sohcahtoa82 6y agoYou know what is meant. This kind of pedantry doesn't add to the conversation. "Theft" is a nice easy word for making a copy of data that you do not have permission to access.