So if you rented a car and then left that by the road with a sign that said, "take me please I'm free" then surely that would fall about as close as a car analogy could get, but even then I don't think it fits. The car was received through a service while still remaining the property of the company providing that service. You took the property obtained in that service transaction and exercised rights to that property that were neither given nor implied. The obvious glaring difference is that it is physical property and the theft leaves the owner without a car whereas the theft of a file is more like someone took the rented car and allowed people to build their own with their purchased materials using the rented car as a guide. The rented car is still there, but the next person who may have purchased the car has one without the original owner making a profit.
That is actually the first thing I thought of when I was rtfa. If it were to do what the virtualboy should have done had it not been made with very limited technology and have a decent 3d "feel" to it, then I'm sure they'd sell like hotcakes if hotcakes were a highly marketable item.
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So if you rented a car and then left that by the road with a sign that said, "take me please I'm free" then surely that would fall about as close as a car analogy could get, but even then I don't think it fits. The car was received through a service while still remaining the property of the company providing that service. You took the property obtained in that service transaction and exercised rights to that property that were neither given nor implied. The obvious glaring difference is that it is physical property and the theft leaves the owner without a car whereas the theft of a file is more like someone took the rented car and allowed people to build their own with their purchased materials using the rented car as a guide. The rented car is still there, but the next person who may have purchased the car has one without the original owner making a profit.
That is actually the first thing I thought of when I was rtfa. If it were to do what the virtualboy should have done had it not been made with very limited technology and have a decent 3d "feel" to it, then I'm sure they'd sell like hotcakes if hotcakes were a highly marketable item.