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Bitcoins are just bits on a computer and aren't physically taken away like a car or a quarter...so I don't think you can call it "stealing"
by rick888 15y ago
Bitcoins are just bits on a computer and aren't physically taken away like a car or a quarter...so I don't think you can call it "stealing"
- jacques_chester 15y agoProperty rights are establishable in a lot of things that are abstract with numerous physical representations. You can own commercial licences, shares, bonds, debts, legal rights to this and that and so on and so forth. Property law does not require physical property in order to be applicable. (IANAL, TINLA)
- rick888 15y agogood, I'm glad. I hope when articles pop up about piracy, more people agree that it isn't just bits being transferred.
- william42 15y agoThere's still a fundamental difference between stealing bitcoins by inducing a transfer and copying music or video games or etc. The latter is clearly a lesser crime.
- Sapient 15y agoThe RIAA and MPAA would disagree with you.
- corin_ 15y agoMore relevantly, so would anyone who ever had their bank account hacked or debit card cloned...