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Old 05-19-2012, 04:02 PM  
gideongallery
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Originally Posted by Half man, Half Amazing View Post
Much like if Matt Kemp "steals" second base, he didn't really 'steal' it. Though if only we could get a Gideongallery/Vin Scully team you could spew your idiotic rambling about how Matt Kemp didn't actually deprive anyone of the use of second base until Vin Scully bitch slapped you.
actually someone like me would point out that unlike copyright infringement even your baseball example meets the primary condition that the resource is taken away from someone else.

The act of "stealing" that base means that another player can not occupy that space any more.

By definition another player was most certainly deprived of that space.
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