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Ruling Confirms Postal Service Discriminated Against GameFly
An anonymous reader writes "It took almost two years, but the US Postal Regulatory Commission just ruled (PDF) that the US Postal Service '...had unduly discriminated against GameFly.' GameFly recently complained that the additional postage was costing them $730,000 per month."
Uh... how about someone just download your credit card and, uh... "copy" it to twitter. That's not stealing... uh... right? I don't know why I'm responding, we've seen people making the same rhetorical argument that makes no sense.
Read and remember: Stealing is not someone losing something. Stealing is taking something that a) is not your's or b) you are not permitted to have by the owner. Stealing is a verb, it is a form of the act of "TAKING" not the act of "LOSING". Why do people never understand that? Case in point: Bob "stole" my idea for the project.
Nor does it necessitate of physical object, because you yourself said that your numbers represent physical money. But the numbers are NOT the physical money. If someone robs the bank of the physical money, do you lose money? No, because the bank, not you is robbed. If someone robs your account of your "numbers", does the bank lose the physical money, no, because you, not the bank, has been robbed.
Now, you can argue the semantics all you want. But my point remains. Is it stealing if someone simply copies your credit card information to Twitter? If someone does it, what will you tell the police?
A) Someone stole my credit card information and put it on Twitter!
B) Someone unethically copied my digital data. They didn't steal it, but I want you to prosecute them for... unethical copying!
Uh...really? Because I think that would result in a lower balance in my account. Now, I could be wrong about this (I feel like i have to point out my sarcasm here), but those numbers in my bank account represent physical money that I can withdraw at any time. I'm not saying that everybody should be free to copy games and movies all they want, but that it doesn't liken to the proper definition of theft when I copy the items in question. I don't know why I'm responding to this...we've seen this argument here a zillion times.
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