On: Hackers threaten to leak plastic surgery pictures

[young_unixer]

Stealing would be breaking into their premises and taking the computers. Obtaining data isn't stealing.

[pc86 → young_unixer]

> Obtaining data isn't stealing.

What is it then, if you don't have the legal right to the data?

[__MatrixMan__ → pc86]

If some law prevents you from having access to some data, then presumably that law has a name for whatever the crime is.

It's not like we need the law to explicitly allow types of access. Anything not explicitly disallowed is allowed without a special name.

"Stealing" happens when the original owner is deprived of the thing.

[young_unixer → pc86]

It's something different from stealing.

Both "hacking" and stealing are illegal in most countries, but they're still completely different actions: one is taking a physical object from someone, the other is sending and receiving electrical pulses trough a wire.

You wouldn't call stealing and killing by the same word, either, even though both are illegal.

[ddingus → pc86]

Infringement

Seriously. Theft requires the property owner be denied their property.

What happened is someone made a copy they were not supposed to.

Textbook infringement.