Does occupying a mountain and making oneself king count as banditry?

In ancient times, occupying a mountain as its king meant taking the mountain as one's own, not allowing others to use it, nor allowing others to pass through from the foot of the mountain unless they paid a toll — this is the conduct of bandits and robbers, and of course it counts as theft and robbery. The mountains on Earth, however, are owned property that belongs to the public; local residents all have the right to use them, and people from other places also have the right to pass by. Only taking from the people and using it for the people does not count as theft; if it is for private gain, it is theft.

To occupy a mountain as its king is to be a bandit — it is forcible, violent, open robbery. Occupying one mountain as its king makes one a bandit; occupying a hundred mountains as their king makes one even more of a bandit; occupying all the mountains, rivers, and lands of an entire nation as one's own would surely make one a great thief. There are still quite a few people on Earth who commit theft, which is why there are so many beings in the three evil destinies, and why the Buddha had no choice but to establish the precepts.

There is no one on the Moon, so the mineral deposits and other resources there are ownerless property; whoever mines or occupies them, it is beyond reproach. The resources on Earth belong to all the people of the globe, with ownership divided by region; they cannot be mined and occupied at will, otherwise wars will break out over the struggle to seize and protect resources.