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Theft means "the illegal act of taking another person's property without that person's freely-given consent". The fact that the victim can or cannot still acces
by ragazzina 2y ago
Theft means "the illegal act of taking another person's property without that person's freely-given consent". The fact that the victim can or cannot still access their property is not in the definition.
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- logicchains 2y agoThroughout most of human history "taking" meant that the thing is now yours and not theirs. If you had a book, I read it all and wrote my own copy, nobody would call that taking your book, it's copying your book. You can try to change the definition, but depriving something of ownership/use of something is qualitatively very different from making a copy of it, so it doesn't follow that the former should necessarily be treated the same as the latter.
- dghlsakjg 2y agoInformation has to be modelled differently. Where and how it is manifested is less relevant. If I told your secrets after we agreed not to share them, it would be a moral violation, even if you still had the copy of the journal that you recorded the secrets in.
- bogwog 2y agoI think "stolen" is perfectly fine to use here, but I don't think you're correct. The definition of theft usually involves depriving someone of something, which is why piracy and copyright infringement are not theft. There's a whole wikipedia section dedicated to it for anyone who actually cares about this kind of thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement