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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
We're talking here about stealing Intellectual Property. No, it's not a physical thing that you hold in your hand. But yes, it's still stealing.
If you come up with an idea for a machine that will solve the world's energy problems, and by the way make you rich... you blab about it to me at a bar... and I build it first, making the money that you won't... I've just stolen your intellectual property.
But I guess you don't feel you've been wronged at all, do you?
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There is a distinct difference, which I have already pointed out, between your example and our issue.
In this case, only one of us can profit from the idea. In our issue one can use the product without preventing another from using it.
The two make a poor comparison.
On another note - no I wouldn't care. In fact, I'd probably let anyone use such a technology for the betterment of mankind rather than my own personal enrichment. On the same topic - would you have the moral audacity to profit off a, let's say, cure for cancer?
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You ALWAYS have a choice. You have a choice not to steal it and thus, not to own a copy of it at all. If you feel you are being treated unfairly by a "seller" then don't buy (or steal) their products.....period.
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Again, I must restate - I do not see it as stealing.