Please don't troll on HN.
Theft is taking something away from someone. Copying by definition doesn't. Pretending it's equivalent to, or even similar to, "theft" is ridiculous.
Theft is taking something away from someone. Copying by definition doesn't. Pretending it's equivalent to, or even similar to, "theft" is ridiculous.
and
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-105publ147
If the terminology is good enough for the DoJ and Congress, it’s good enough for an internet forum.
I don’t like this movement to memoryhole the debate we had in the ‘90s through wordsmithing.