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Re:How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay by humanrebar on Thursday December 14, 2017 @01:06PM (#15924710)
> If I steal your car and sell it for $300,

If you steal my car, I no longer have a car. I would need to go out and buy another car to replace it.

If you copy my data (a photo, a song, a film), I haven't lost the original. Only my business model has been affected, which was based on scarcity of the data.

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Re:How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay by icebraining on Thursday December 14, 2017 @02:12PM (#15925757)
But why does that mean the loss is bounded by how much money he happens to have made running the site? I'm not seeing the link.
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