You're picking it apart but you seem to have missed his point entirely. It's not about money or even having the trivial words taken. It's about being attached t

You're picking it apart but you seem to have missed his point entirely. It's not about money or even having the trivial words taken. It's about being attached to something that you aren't actually attached to, or more specifically, not having control over what you and the work you've done are attached to. See, that's the bothersome thing. As he writes: Because when some dick weed uses and sells my stuff without permission, I seldom lose anything more than theoretical (non-)money from a junk project that’ll be forgotten in a month or two. Whatever. Happens every day. Don’t care. Nope. But. When somebody creates the indelible impression that I relinquished control of my work in the service of that complete piece of shit when I did not? Well. That, to use an old publishing term, is fucking bullshit. This is exactly how I feel when I see "blog comments" that are actually just scraped from comments on other sites (like HN). It's not that I want compensation at all: I just don't want my name and words attached to something I had nothing to do with, and it's infuriating that there are so many people out there who feel entitled to do exactly that just because I happen to have put some words on the internet without asking for money.