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If any of the other users are part owners (shareholders) of any copyrighted material being downloaded illegally, then those downloading it are accessing the network against the ToS. Surely by "rights of other users" they mean to include the right to not "have my property stolen."

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"The rights of other users" most probably refer to the rights mentioned in this chart. Not copyright.

It is unlikely anyone in the network has the rights to the copyrighted material being exchanged. There may be some exceptions, but you'd have to dig for them, in an extremely invasive and non-neutral way.

Also, copyright infringement is nothing like property theft, mostly because copy & paste doesn't have the same effects as cut & paste. Stop using this broken analogy, it only hurts the debate.

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