But, many people have a jaded view of a hacker. The view seen by most people is that hackers are bad people. They steal stuff and hurt other people and tear up other's computers. Well, yes, some people are like that, but they aren't hackers. Technically, hackers do steal.
Text is what they are taking, written words and knowledge.
Not the latest edition of Adobe Photoshop or AOLPhun. Hacker's are not the people you see with these sights proclaiming they have passwords for pornographic sights and saying that they have all of the software that you could ever need. Hackers are people against censorship. They are the people you see wearing the blue ribbons. Hackers are trying to find knowledge.