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nadermxtoday at 6:14 PM5 repliesview on HN

Funny how the copyright industry was able to spin copyright infringment into the pejorative "stealing". If you still have the item, what was stolen?

Dowling v. United States, 473 U.S. 207 (1985): The Supreme Court ruled that the unauthorized sale of phonorecords of copyrighted musical compositions does not constitute "stolen, converted or taken by fraud" goods under the National Stolen Property Act


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tensortoday at 6:30 PM

I still find the idea that "learning" from code is "stealing" kind of ridiculous.

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Neywinytoday at 6:25 PM

I don't think it's unreasonable to consider it stolen potential profit, but agreed that's not how they spin it

blkstoday at 7:53 PM

“Stolen” as in “profited on IP against terms and conditions of the license”.

thesmtsolver2today at 7:18 PM

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themafiatoday at 6:32 PM

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