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The concept of ownership of an IP address, implied by “obtains”, is pretty clear and well-understood. The story was exactly what I imagined after reading the headline. Rather than making an obtuse joke, how would you suggest it be improved?

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"obtains control of" would be much better.

consider the headline "obtained 800k email addresses illegitimately". would you really assume that this meant they were able to receive email at those addresses, or just that they'd obtained the addresses?