So posting a link to a publicly available news article on social media is "stealing" but sharing the password for a pay site (directly violating the site's TOS) is not stealing??
This is almost as weird as meth being legal but raw milk being outlawed.
It very much is like stealing. It's one thing to share a password for the people in your household, but to buy a personal sub as a business/government and share with almost a dozen coworkers is something else.
And I guarantee you this judge wouldn't have done this "WTF even is a 'password' anyways? What constitutes ‘distribution’ or ‘share’?" if this was Netflix or Disney suing you.
You cannot own information, thus it cannot be stolen. You can only attempt to control access on an agreement basis. But that basis has nothing to do with legality. And shouldn't because that's retarded
That’s a nice-sounding platitude, but at a certain level it runs into the same issues Communism does: if someone doesn’t have a right to make a living off their work, they can’t or won’t spend time doing that work.
So posting a link to a publicly available news article on social media is "stealing" but sharing the password for a pay site (directly violating the site's TOS) is not stealing??
This is almost as weird as meth being legal but raw milk being outlawed.
Posting a link to a news article isn't stealing. Neither is sharing the password for a pay site.
It very much is like stealing. It's one thing to share a password for the people in your household, but to buy a personal sub as a business/government and share with almost a dozen coworkers is something else.
And I guarantee you this judge wouldn't have done this "WTF even is a 'password' anyways? What constitutes ‘distribution’ or ‘share’?" if this was Netflix or Disney suing you.
You cannot own information, thus it cannot be stolen. You can only attempt to control access on an agreement basis. But that basis has nothing to do with legality. And shouldn't because that's retarded
That’s a nice-sounding platitude, but at a certain level it runs into the same issues Communism does: if someone doesn’t have a right to make a living off their work, they can’t or won’t spend time doing that work.