The existing property principles translate just fine.
If they did, we wouldn't be having this conversation. As others have pointed out, physical concepts of scarcity and mutual exclusion are nearly meaningless in the digital realm. Digital systems are capable of acting autonomously as agents; they are not just passive property. Measures to ensure technical exclusion bear no useful resemblance to physical security. Computers give the ability to lay out in machine-readable terms what is "public" and what is not.
Note that I'm not arguing against the right to decide who can access a computer system and for what purposes, only against the use of analogies to physical spaces and existing laws.
If they did, we wouldn't be having this conversation. As others have pointed out, physical concepts of scarcity and mutual exclusion are nearly meaningless in the digital realm. Digital systems are capable of acting autonomously as agents; they are not just passive property. Measures to ensure technical exclusion bear no useful resemblance to physical security. Computers give the ability to lay out in machine-readable terms what is "public" and what is not.
Note that I'm not arguing against the right to decide who can access a computer system and for what purposes, only against the use of analogies to physical spaces and existing laws.