alt Hacker News>you cannot steal genes.
Why not? You can steal bits, unless you think copyright law's bunk as well. You can even steal ideas (patents).
>you cannot steal genes.
Why not? You can steal bits, unless you think copyright law's bunk as well. You can even steal ideas (patents).
You can steal neither of those. You can copy them and in some specific cases copying bits or letters or some other human creative work might be unethical, in a lot more cases it can be illegal, but it is not theft.