[WikiEN-l] Interesting article on restored copyrights in US works between...

[Matthew Brown]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:23 PM,  <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
> Now that net sites have begun uploading those documents so we can  conviently
> view them, you want to steal them.  That's not very nice.

They cannot be stolen.  The information is being copied, not
destroyed, and the information is not property; the material on which
it is recorded is property, yes, but nobody is being deprived of
property.

It is not theft any more than breathing the air within their building
would be theft.

-Matt