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Re:US indictments of piracy group members throw top-tier pir... by scarface74 on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @01:32PM (#24284864)
These are criminal cases. If you owned a software company and someone broke into your git repo and started selling your software as their own, would you want the police to be involved?
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Re:US indictments of piracy group members throw top-tier pir... by saagarjha on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @03:39PM (#24286389)
It’s not the same. It’s like you shipped your software to people and someone took the copy you sold them and gave to it someone else.
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Re:US indictments of piracy group members throw top-tier pir... by colejohnson66 on Thursday August 27, 2020 @11:32AM (#24294665)
...while keeping a copy for themselves. And then reselling that copy over and over.

It’s not the same; It’s profiting off someone else’s work.

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Re:US indictments of piracy group members throw top-tier pir... by saagarjha on Thursday August 27, 2020 @01:02PM (#24295743)
But it is not breaking and entering.
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Re:US indictments of piracy group members throw top-tier pir... by scarface74 on Friday August 28, 2020 @10:44AM (#24305477)
It’s still a criminal offense.
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