Quote:
Originally Posted by stustaff
Im confused Theft means stealing something surely!
...
|
And the key in this is what is "something" and the rights that are associated with "something."
Some people feel that because it is easy to make a digital copy and there is no tangible object "other than a file" and the original still exists then hey, no harm done, copy away. The fact is that that file is property in the same sense as a paper book or video or cable bandwidth and if you don't have permission to take it .....
Just as in the subject and the o.p. the website did not have permission to do what they were doing with the property of the companies and have suffered the consequences.