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RE: Hold on a second

Comment comment by ldsudduth on 18 January 2008

If I steal a car I deprive the owner of its use. If I am on my neighbors wireless, he can still use it.

But not completely--you are depriving him of part of his bandwidth (I'm not going to get into the whole ComCast debacle at this point--it's not relevant, but cudos to VNut for pointing it out) that he has paid for; ergo it's still stealing.

Perhaps a better analogy would be an ink pen--where the buyer of the pen 'buys' a certain amount of ink; and if you use it, you deprive him of part of that ink.

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RE: Hold on a second by Brandon :: NR9

That still isn't a sound analogy. You'd have to say the buyer pays to be able to use a certain amount of ink every hour. Also, in order to show the owner is deprived of anything, you have to show the infringer is using so much ink the owner isn't able to use what he desires.

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