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Originally Posted by HarryT
Ideas indeed cannot be protected, but a book is not an "idea" any more than a chair or a house are ideas. All are concrete expressions of ideas, and that process of physical instantiation grants them legal protection.
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Right, but if someone is reading a physical book but not removing it from the store - one of the fairly ridiculous examples I was objecting to - what have they stolen? The only possible answers is the ideas and expression thereof in the book, which can not be stolen.
Apache is trying to equate actions that are simply not legally or morally equivalent.