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by jvanderbot 936 days ago
All property is fiction if you squint hard enough at every human society convention. "they shouldn't have built a door" is not adequate defense against breaking and entering allegations.

A secure system for sharing information is basically a door with a lock. You break the lock and steal something, you have broken the law.

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>You break the lock and steal something, you have broken the law.

Law enforcement at that scale is highly asymmetrical. Large powerful countries can act like bullies because "what are you gonna do about it?".

Yeah, we have the UN and international courts and what not, but those are toothless as without a superior power to act as the enforcer, they can wipe their ass with your laws, complaint or court ruling and do as they please anyway.

Granted!

However none of that implies:

> There's nothing wrong with stealing and copying.

I agree, this is why I have a solid door and have armed myself.