Re:Aukey kicked off Amazon following fake reviews allegations
by hunter2_ on Sunday May 23, 2021 @08:57PM
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Unlike ideas and other intangibles that are subject to trivial copying, electricity falls into the realm of the physical world. Also, theft of services is an established type of theft along with theft of property.
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Re:Aukey kicked off Amazon following fake reviews allegations
by DanBC on Sunday May 23, 2021 @09:15PM
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What's being stolen in theft of electricity? The electrons or the holes?
Re:Aukey kicked off Amazon following fake reviews allegations
by hunter2_ on Sunday May 23, 2021 @09:34PM
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Service. This question "is a copy equivalent and trivial to create?" is a pretty good way to understand the line in the sand regarding what stuff is subject to copyright infringement versus theft. We have theft of property and theft of service. We do not have theft of trivially copyable stuff because we have copyright infringement instead for that case.
Paintings, manuscripts, etc. are subject to theft because they are nonfungible. The content itself is subject to copyright because the copies are fungible.