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If you SOLD something and somehow REMOVE or the ability to use it, it's theft. Whether it's done using modern technology (software) or old technology (crowbar)
by zac23or 4y ago
If you SOLD something and somehow REMOVE or the ability to use it, it's theft.
Whether it's done using modern technology (software) or old technology (crowbar) is not important.
- gruez 4y ago>Whether it's done using modern technology (software) or old technology (crowbar) is not important Even if you equate taking down DRM servers with breaking into someone's house and using a crowbar to break their widget, that's still a different crime than theft.
- Thiez 4y agoSo if it turns out that your car dealer can remotely disable your car and they announce that starting September 1st, you will no longer be able to start it. You would not consider that theft? In this scenario it would also be very difficult and/or illegal to circumvent the disable-mechanism.
- gruez 4y ago>So if it turns out that your car dealer can remotely disable your car and they announce that starting September 1st, you will no longer be able to start it. You would not consider that theft? As mentioned in my previous comment, it would be wrong but not theft specifically. Someone breaking into my garage and smashing my car isn't theft, it's vandalism.
- Thiez 4y agoFair enough. Can we meet in the middle and agree that this action, whatever the exact name, is of comparable moral badness as theft? :)