We live in confusing times.

Steal one mp3 and you might get fined thousands, steal a book from your local shoppe and the police would come visit you. Forge a signature and you would also be in trouble. Hack a government website and you will have to answer some questions.

Steal all the books in the world, forge millions and this story begins to tell and nothing happens.

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littlecranky67 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Nothing got stolen as everything is still in its original place. You mean copied. It got copied.

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spudlyo 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

After all that has been said and written on this topic, people still manage to conflate theft with intellectual property violation, real or imagined.

	▲	antihipocrat 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They are selling a product created from mass violation of IP. This isn't some kid downloading a pirated song for personal use.
	▲	I-M-S 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's been 160 years since the publication of Das Kapital and people still don't understand the concept of stealing the surplus value.

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nvme0n1p1 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Like the saying goes, if you steal one of the world's books, you have a problem. If you steal a million of the world's books, the world has a problem.

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artur_makly 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

might makes right. this will never change..and is technologically agnostic.

	▲	MiroslavPokorny 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Reminds me of the Stalin quote about killing a million vs being a murderer