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Such is the complexity of laws, that, through a series of steps that each seem reasonable individually, one can become an owner of a thing that should not be their property.


I think that called confiscation without compensation which is against the law?


> confiscation without compensation

That could be what Elsevier & friends are guilty of, but I'd like to see a chain of reasoning that makes it obvious.




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