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If you steal baryons, it’s “theft”. If you steal leptons, it’s “piracy”. Pretty simple, really.
by function_seven 3y ago
If you steal baryons, it’s “theft”. If you steal leptons, it’s “piracy”. Pretty simple, really.
- ndriscoll 3y agoThe electrons barely move, so you're not stealing leptons. Also, generally filesharing involves someone freely giving you copies of files, so you're not stealing from them in any case. It's more like the "I consent, I consent, I don't" meme.
- function_seven 3y agoNot only that, but my joke fails when it comes to stringing up a wire alongside a high-voltage power line. (Like that urban legend about the farmer who got "free" energy by stringing the wire along his fence) Not only is our farmer not taking the actual leptons from the power line, but he's actually stealing something from the EM field. Our farmer only has claim to his wheat field, Edison owns the EM field. I guess particle classification is completely irrelevant to property law. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/3520/is-it-possible-to-obtain-current-indirectly-from-power-lines?rq=1 https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/3520/is-it-poss...