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by xiaoma 3407 days ago
By stealing do you mean copying? What is the actual harm caused by social media marketing norms on VK?

Do you feel like Indians making generic copies of western cancer drugs is also wrong?

Most importantly, what kind of paragon of morality are you to pass such strident judgment on such a pedestrian issue?

Are you some super eco-conscious, vegetarian, volunteer worker who fights to stop the various unsavory things you have going on in your own country... or are your unyielding ethical judgments primarily reserved when for those living in much poorer countries and different cultures copy and share each other's social media ads?

I just don't understand why this is an issue worthwhile to try to shame strangers on the internet over.

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Could you maybe explain how you compare copying a cancer drug to automatically putting your own watermark on other people's funny images?
Okay, kazga.

Both violate international IP treaties and both are absolutely normal behavior to many millions of people. Not amoral psychopaths for the most part, just normal people.

False. In Europe, you can IP the industrial process of making the drug, not the drug itself.