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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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No, you haven't. If it's not registered or recorded then it's not property.
You've been using the term IP wrong, Steve. It does not refer to the idea, because you cannot own an idea. IP refers to the pieces of paper that give you the right of sole use of the idea.
Your books are not your intellectual property, Steve. Your IP is the right to copy and distribute the books. Thus, unless someone tricks you into signing away the copyright, your property has not been stolen.