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moron4hireyesterday at 3:24 PM1 replyview on HN

No, but it does matter how much money the alleged infringer has.

Property law is mostly concerned with protecting the rich from the poor, so when a rich person violates the property of a poor person, the courts can't allow the inversion of purpose and will create something called a "legal fiction," which is basically the kind of bending-over-backwards that my children do to try to claim that they didn't break the rules, actually, and if you look at it in a certain way they were actually following the rules, actually.


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gzreadyesterday at 4:45 PM

This sort of thing used to be heavily downvoted on HN. How the site has changed in the last year.

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