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Please don't troll on HN. Theft is taking something away from someone. Copying by definition doesn't. Pretending it's equivalent to, or even similar to, "theft

• junofan 3y ago
  That’s not true. There’s a whole history of legislation and publications, e.g. https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/intellectual-property-theft https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/intellectual-proper... and https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-105publ147 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-105publ147 If the terminology is good enough for the DoJ and Congress, it’s good enough for an internet forum. I don’t like this movement to memoryhole the debate we had in the ‘90s through wordsmithing.
  • namaria 3y ago
    There is a lot of middle ground between swallowing lobbyists language wholesale because it was adopted by legislators in their pocket and revisionism.