An open letter...No MEME could say it better

[Rob Roy]

Where do you draw the line between what might be intellectual property theft and what might not be?

That's a good question.

I tend to look at property as being tangible and physical. Joe has a shovel. It is property. Since that shovel is unique, a separate piece of something, taking it from Joe without his permission would be theft. To take it deprives Joe of it.

Tom has an idea for an implement to dig with, it looks an awful lot like Joe's shovel, except it's just an idea and many people can hold the same idea at once. Probably not property. many people can hold the same idea at once without depriving anyone of anything tangible.

 

[joeyarnoldvn]

That's a good question.

I tend to look at property as being tangible and physical. Joe has a shovel. It is property. Since that shovel is unique, a separate piece of something, taking it from Joe without his permission would be theft. To take it deprives Joe of it.

Tom has an idea for an implement to dig with, it looks an awful lot like Joe's shovel, except it's just an idea and many people can hold the same idea at once. Probably not property. many people can hold the same idea at once without depriving anyone of anything tangible.

Rob Roy, I agree with what you said about tangible items in real life. But what about virtual items on the Internet that can be omnipresent in that the data and the electricity can be as uncountable or difficult to count on the micro level, meaning it is almost impossible to keep track of which water molecule came from where and which electron came from where as radio waves and everything runs around the Internet and as things are copied and mirrored on different servers and as people spy on those things and the list goes on and on and on and I don't even have time to talk about how complex it is.

Now, I agree with you in regards to how some ideas and some things may be similar to other things and ideas and some people may be ok with that. Like, I'm ok with that, absolutely. I believe in the free market. If you steal my idea, I should say bad things about you on the Internet to hurt your business. I should try to compete. The list goes on. I don't want government to get involved in domestic disputes.

 

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[Rob Roy]

Rob Roy, I agree with what you said about tangible items in real life. But what about virtual items on the Internet that can be omnipresent in that the data and the electricity can be as uncountable or difficult to count on the micro level, meaning it is almost impossible to keep track of which water molecule came from where and which electron came from where as radio waves and everything runs around the Internet and as things are copied and mirrored on different servers and as people spy on those things and the list goes on and on and on and I don't even have time to talk about how complex it is.

Now, I agree with you in regards to how some ideas and some things may be similar to other things and ideas and some people may be ok with that. Like, I'm ok with that, absolutely. I believe in the free market. If you steal my idea, I should say bad things about you on the Internet to hurt your business. I should try to compete. The list goes on. I don't want government to get involved in domestic disputes.

Government is a mythical construct though, designed to control people, it's just ignorant or devious people behaving in ways that would be criminal if you or I had the same behaviors.

To claim a forcible monopoly over dispute resolution is flawed from the get go. It is like saying "you need to pay me to protect you from people who might hit you, or I'll hit you".