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Originally Posted by Jaime_Astorga
Using another person's ideas is not wrong; it is the basis of all human cultural and scientific progress. CLAIMING to be the person who came up with an idea when one didn't, on the other hand, is wrong. All the more so if, by doing so, one receives rewards which could have gone towards the original creator.
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You are making extremely arbitrary distinctions between very similar situations to justify the unjustifiable. You use somebody else's work for your own gain (and if just to save a few dollars in buying a copy) and that is progress. If someone uses your ideas and makes money of it, then it is wrong.
And the basis of all human progress is that you can reap some kind of reward for your work. No matter what kind of work. That is the reason you do it in the first place. If we don't protect that, then progress is dead. The reward doesn't necessarily have to be monetary, it can be just recognition. But that should be up to the person who created the piece/work/idea in question.