Some time ago a website stole some work from dA.(secondary digg) Recently, the website apologizedand dugg the article.

Cue some guy named "nepawoods" wanking all over the post how it wasn't stolen because it was IDEAS and ANYONE who posts IDEAS on the INTERNET deserves to have them redistributed without permission and they have no RIGHTS to protest even though RIGHTS are granted by LAW and he doesn't follow the LAW if he doesn't WANT TO. But not in so many words.

People like you deserve it. You post your work to a site like deviantART which allows anyone to download it without agreeing to any terms whatsoever, and then you start whining about "copyright violation". You're no better than the RIAA.

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It's INFORMATION. Once you make it public (in the sense of not secret), others can copy it, and you have no right to control information - i.e. you have no right to control the states of bits of memory in physical hardware that I OWN. Wouldn't it be nice if you could ... yeah, yeah, yeah - I know - but you can't. Get over it.

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If you could only defend the notion that it is "stealing". When you steal physical property, someone suffers a loss - they are deprived of that property. When you copy information (be it art, music, whatever), the original remains intact. NOTHING is taken away from anyone. NO ONE has less of anything than they had before.