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TL;DR automated stuff happened. That's not theft; it is copyright infringement. We are indeed in an age of copyright infringement, but also in an age of abunda
by Fnoord 4y ago
TL;DR automated stuff happened.
That's not theft; it is copyright infringement. We are indeed in an age of copyright infringement, but also in an age of abundant availability of data.
For sharing inventions, we have a patent system. Otherwise, we have secrecy. If you don't want something to be shared easily, don't digitize it. Or, if you must, don't connect it to the internet. Keep it airgapped. And even airgap is relative these days.
- winternett 4y agoI'm not worried about ideas being posted online being abridged by automation. Of course publicly shared ideas can be copied. It's the fact that original independent (unsponsored) content and idea creators are often suppressed (downvoted or ignored) on many points, then their ideas are blatantly lifted and rip-posted by others on platforms that give credit and monetization to blatant hijackers... That's a bit beyond copyright infringement. It's a new and higher level of offense than simple copyright infringement. It's driving real scholars (and people who could actually complete presented ideas) to give up and wither away in desk jobs. Then the world doesn't realize that fraud has taken over and looted everything until real problems get trumped by profit seeking and vanity for decades.