No honest person would call this the theft of millions of documents. This is akin to jumping the gate at a theme park and riding for free, a bunch of times. Nob

No honest person would call this the theft of millions of documents. This is akin to jumping the gate at a theme park and riding for free, a bunch of times. Nobody stole a rollercoaster. Harm was done but there's no need to reach for emotional terms to exaggerate it. It'd take a lawyer to call this theft. I mean, by a word in a book it is but realistically it isn't. For instance, I've had a forum post quoted word for word, and not as a reply. Of course I hadn't registered the copyright, but if I had I could have sued, as I would have been robbed - in your eyes. The same nothing would have happened but by virtue of a piece of paper you and yours would see it differently. You talk about the closed mindset of hackernews but fail to see the emotionally isolated world inhabited by those who act as if morality flows from law instead of vice versa. So again, no. I don't think an honest person would agree with that characterization of the events, at least not until a lawyer 'clarified' it for them.