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Re:Report: Chinese government is behind a decade of hacks on... by dvh on Saturday May 05, 2018 @04:39PM (#17003672)
It's not a theft. Whatever information they took from hacked computers probably stayed on those computers, why would they erased it. It's copying. Not a theft. Theft is when someone break in to your apartment and steal your CD collection leaving you with nothing.
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Re:Report: Chinese government is behind a decade of hacks on... by c22 on Saturday May 05, 2018 @06:24PM (#17004211)
If you're a corporate entity and the copying of data you paid to assemble leaves you with no competitive advantage it's a lot closer to theft than your run of the mill "copying is theft" assertion.
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Re:Report: Chinese government is behind a decade of hacks on... by rdlecler1 on Saturday May 05, 2018 @11:19PM (#17005075)
It’s theft if you use that information to create products from that data for which you didn’t have to pay R&D for. This is what IP theft is. Don’t muddy the waters with a technical description of the crime.
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