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Librarian James K. M. Cheng said that library staff first noticed the works were missing on March 14, and were quick to report the theft both to library and University officials and to law enforcement authorities. Over the summer, the FBI placed a report in its Stolen Art File, available online to protect buyers of art from accidentally acquiring stolen goods...
...collection of rare Chinese texts, valued at about $1 million, has been registered with the FBI's Stolen Art File following its theft last spring from the Harvard-Yenching Library...
...theft is among the most costly ever to strike Harvard's library system, the largest of any university in the world...
Clearly, the fact that it is so easy to copy digital material makes it hard to outlaw doing so, and people seem inclined to do what is easy and fun. Theft in the digital world, whether of software or of songs, does not seem to carry the moral freighting of theft in the material world--of shoplifting a CD, for example. Yet the fact that we may not be able to prevent theft on a small scale does not mean we should condone it on a large scale...
...joking, and no evidence has surfaced linking him to either the debate prep material or anything else funneled from Austin. The whole circus is all the more silly because FBI investigators are still not sure a federal crime has been committed. The only one they could come up with--theft from a federally financed activity--is such a stretch that it might not apply: it's hard to argue that the papers and tape are valuable enough to trigger the statute, which requires that the stolen material be worth more than...