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Your argument seems to be: everybody is doing it, so it's not morally wrong. Would you feel the same way if it was your intellectual property that was stolen?
by illumin8 17y ago
Your argument seems to be: everybody is doing it, so it's not morally wrong.
Would you feel the same way if it was your intellectual property that was stolen? What if you spent the last year of your life in stealth mode, working 120 hour weeks and Gizmodo published your business plan on the web for everyone to see?
- chaosmachine 17y agoSounds like good publicity to me. Especially if you've already got that much (6000+ hours) of a headstart on your competition.
- _delirium 17y agoIt's more like: this isn't morally wrong in the sense that stealing someone's iPhone is wrong, but morally wrong in the sense that corporate espionage is wrong, which is a whole different and fairly complex beast. Mostly, I don't think it's any worse when Gizmodo publishes it on the web for all to see than when the tech companies buy and teardown "found" prototypes. If people want a wholesale clampdown on that sort of thing, applied evenly, that might be worth considering.
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