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by viraptor 2314 days ago
> Copying could as well be taking a picture of them.

These are very different things and regulated in different ways. This is some weird version of strawman.

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I do not see how, given that this is about the equifax events. Is it really different if you copy a "top secret" text file or if you take photographs of your screen displaying it?
Nobody will care if you take a photo of money. Copying the money, as in making a physical copy is a problem.

This is different from information which is inherently not physical, so any copy of representation is a copy. The grey area of course is a lossy copy... redistributed low-res copies of art, etc.