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Chinas whole economy is built on illegal copying amd stealing ideas, who is surprised? Not me.
by ShrigmaMale 5y ago
Chinas whole economy is built on illegal copying amd stealing ideas, who is surprised? Not me.
- magpi3 5y agoI would say the entire world economy is based on people taking other people's ideas and running with them. Steve Jobs was a Silicon Valley folk hero, no? Was he known for implementing his original ideas?
- rhemingway 5y agoWhat ideas did Steve Jobs illegally copy?
- rizzaxc 5y agothat's an oxymoron. ideas are inherently non copyrightable
- kzrdude 5y agoAmerican economy with the likes of youtube and facebook are built on copying and stealing copyrighted video and audio. That's literally how youtube captured all the users: become the go-to place for anyone to upload videos, also spreading copies of music videos. Facebook captures a lot of video viewers by not controlling video sources either in a similar way.
- shukantpal 5y agoThere’s no evidence that they are doing that intentionally or deliberately. Sure some creators do that.
- Dah00n 5y agoSure there are. There was a huge uproar on Facebook on how if you shared a video Facebook itself would show it from Facebook, not link the original source. That is 100% intentionally and deliberately. American companies are absolutely no better. If anything they are worse.
- shukantpal 5y ago> Sure there are. There was a huge uproar on Facebook on how if you shared a video Facebook itself would show it from Facebook, not link the original source. Totally unrelated.
- vbphprubyjsgo 5y agoIt's called having good lawyers unlike rapidshare style hosters. At the end of the day getting mad about file hosting is retarded.
- NaturalPhallacy 5y ago>illegal copying amd stealing ideas I find the notion that ideas can be owned to be anti-humanist. We finally invent something that costs nothing to share or copy, and we immediately invent reasons why we can't. Imaginary property was invented by and for lawyers.
- csee 5y agoIf IP wasn't a thing then what would be the incentive to find new IP? Why would anyone make movies, do drug research, etc
- arthurofbabylon 5y agoThis notion that creators are motivated exclusively for monetary reward is absurd. But forgivable. Just because the corporate variant of creators tend to best proliferate does not mean that they best innovate.
- csee 5y agoI'm more talking about big budget projects that require large and expensive teams, rather than indie projects or music. Say, The Lord of the Rings or the Pfizer vaccine. Achievements of this scale can't be done by small groups of the intrinsically motivated. Without some IP protection, private capital wouldn't pursue these projects. You may think that sacrificing these things is worth it, but at least be up front about that trade off when making the argument.
- zzzzzzzza 5y agocounterpoint: without ip the economy would be a multiple of its current size and such projects would easily be funded.
- hpen 5y agoI mean open source pushes things forward but lack of IP? I don't think so. Linux is a great example of how open source brings great things, it's also a great example of how IP has helped open source.
- okprod 5y agoWhat was your comment on HN when the FSF successfully sued Cisco? Please share link here.
- esarbe 5y agoAre you trying to expose some ideological inconsitency so that you can cry 'Ha! Gotcha!'? What if the GP didn't condone the FSF suing Cisco, but then recognized they were wrong and thus changed their mind? What is your comment supposed to achieve? And how is it a worthwhile contribution?
- j4kp07 5y agoHere is my comment. Cisco != China