Tracy R Reed wrote:
Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Legally? Yes. Most of the rulings have gone that way. This is similar
Which is, of course, stupid. If I read my watch by light from your
window am I stealing?
to an unlocked house. An unlocked front door does not mean you can
cart off everything inside.
Another real-world analogy which fits poorly with the online world.
Not that this is your analogy. I know it is the one those who know
nothing about the net insist on using.
That having been said: does anybody care? Probably not.
Indeed.
I should have paused before sending. I like your analogy much better,
with one exception. When you read your watch using the light from
someone's window, it does not in any way affect the light available for
their use at any given moment. The light they are using does not
diminish in any way.
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