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A: I steal your house. You are now homeless. B: I steal the blueprints to your house. You still have a house, but you paid for an architect and I didn't. B
by nostromo 6y ago
A: I steal your house. You are now homeless.
B: I steal the blueprints to your house. You still have a house, but you paid for an architect and I didn't.
B still sucks, but almost everyone agrees A is much worse. And that's why if you steal $20m from a bank, the sentence is much worse than if you copy software that a bank spent $20m to develop.
- jmpman 6y agoThe architect may not agree with you. He was personally impacted. It’s a matter of upholding intellectual property. I suspect the rampant justification of music pirating from the early 2000s has caused people to have defective morality circuits.