How does missing the 'car analogy' help at all? Analogies are only ever useful to explain to those who do not understand the first case - trying to draw parallels otherwise inevitably leads to gross simplifications, and they're incredibly frequently abused to try and make another point. Analogies are great if John Oliver, or you're at the bar and talking to Erv the local HVAC guy - but this is hacker news, we normally understand this - and trying to port it to a completely different legal framework is probably disingenuous.