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Re:GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code by meddlepal on Monday May 25, 2020 @09:55AM (#23301141)
> No one has been deprived of their property.

You deprived someone of the revenue generated by their property. Still theft.

If you squat in an apartment, is that theft?

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Re:GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code by 0-O-0 on Monday May 25, 2020 @10:36AM (#23301530)
That's not a good analogy either. Apartment is a physical, limited resource, using it denies it to its owner and deteriorates its condition. Digital copy shares none of the properties with a physical resource.

Revenue from a purchase that I'm not going to make is non-existent. It can't be lost or gained.

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Re:GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code by ubercow13 on Monday May 25, 2020 @10:10AM (#23301292)
>You deprived someone of the revenue generated by their property

You have not; that revenue never existed.

Squatting is sometimes legal (in the UK at least) and squatters can end up owning the property if they live there long enough.

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