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We can argue that stealing at planetary scale is something innovative. Of course it still is theft, but at this scale is something without precedent.
by akagusu 9mo ago
We can argue that stealing at planetary scale is something innovative. Of course it still is theft, but at this scale is something without precedent.
- kelseyfrog 9mo agoIntellectual property is ontologically incoherent. Stealing IP isn't possible because IP is a legal construct, not something that exists in the natural world nor in reality.
- helpfulfrond 9mo agoI'm curious why you have a licensing agreement in your "about" if IP isn't real.
- kelseyfrog 9mo agoSo I can do very silly things with the law when my comments end up used for commercial purposes. The point is to highlight the contradiction, not to avoid it.
- larodi 9mo agoIndeed, and then we still have to remind ourselves that the concept of stealing intellectual property is a very new and fragile one, born with the idea of intellectual property, which is still not something universally understood or accepted.
- metalman 9mo agoBullshit. People have always been private and jealous of there possesions and have considered secrets to be central to identity, and worth dying and killing for.