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scarface74
on Aug 26, 2020
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US indictments of piracy group members throw top-t...
These are criminal cases. If you owned a software company and someone broke into your git repo and started selling your software as their own, would you want the police to be involved?
saagarjha
on Aug 26, 2020
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It’s not the same. It’s like you shipped your software to people and someone took the copy you sold them and gave to it someone else.
colejohnson66
on Aug 27, 2020
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...while keeping a copy for themselves. And then reselling that copy
over and over
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It’s not the same; It’s profiting off someone else’s work.
saagarjha
on Aug 27, 2020
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But it is not breaking and entering.
scarface74
on Aug 28, 2020
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It’s still a criminal offense.
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