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Comment by philipallstar

19 hours ago

Which is mad, really.

It seems pretty fundamental concept in most modern civilizations. Pick pocketing and purse snatching is illegal despite the property being publicly accessible. We do need reliable courts to determine intent.

  • That's not really the same, though. If a website has content publicly available, that you should "take", how can a bot determine what it means to publish and what it accidentally published?

Absolutely.

It is, however, a glowing beacon of an example of law being designed to maintain the status quo and/or protect companies at the expense of individuals.

As someone else said, welcome to late stage capitalism.