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I don't like any analogy involving actual property, because actual physical property has natural scarcity.

When you make a web request to the NYT servers, they are willfully distributing a copy of that content to you. Obviously, you're not allowed to do anything you want with the content (like sell or otherwise redistribute it), but I certainly think you can manipulate it and view it any way you want.



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