If copying isn’t theft then I guess we can stop worrying about open source licensing. Anyone, including corporations, would be able to take open source code and copy it into their own products, reselling it without consent or releasing their changes because they haven’t stolen anything, just copied it, right?
If you spend years of your life writing some software and then it accidentally gets revealed to the world by mistake, anyone can copy it and use it as their own? Because copying isn’t theft, theft they haven’t stolen anything from you, so you have nothing to complain about?
Preventing someone from getting value out of their work is theft - not matter how it is done. Copying a dead person's work isn't theft because a dead person can't create value, but stealing a dead person's car is still theft, because something of value is gone.
Stealing a car you were never going to buy and making an exact replica of a car you were never going to buy is two entirely different things.
lazyfanatic42|3 months ago
Aurornis|3 months ago
If you spend years of your life writing some software and then it accidentally gets revealed to the world by mistake, anyone can copy it and use it as their own? Because copying isn’t theft, theft they haven’t stolen anything from you, so you have nothing to complain about?
JohnLocke4|3 months ago
Stealing a car you were never going to buy and making an exact replica of a car you were never going to buy is two entirely different things.
patanegra|3 months ago
It's a breach of intellectual property rights owner.
prasadjoglekar|3 months ago
cwillu|3 months ago
patanegra|3 months ago
If yes, then it can be stolen.
If no, then it is fine to take any source code, any photo, any information, and do whatever I want with it, right?