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The handbag on the chair analogy would be the tea-leaf saying "may I take your bag", and the handbag owner - let's call them hippy, for sake of argument - saying "but of course".

As opposed to saying "but of course" and substituting the handbag with a paperbag full of tynan paste.

Or saying "Fuck you - 403, motherfucker".

Ok, so the analogy does not really work.

What we are looking at is one person (the linker) taking a finite thing that another person (site owner) has paid for.

You cannot copy bandwidth, it's an actual finite resource.

But that's not theft because the owner was not able to stop the linker.

What is it then?