[azemetre]

It really feels like a digital form of colonialism; they come in take everything, completely disregard the rules, ignore intellectual copyright laws (while you still have to obey them), but when you speak out against this suddenly you are a luddite that doesn't care about human progress.

[mnau]

It's especially distasteful when we consider lawsuits like Epic vs Silicon Knights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Knights

> Silicon Knights had "deliberately and repeatedly copied thousands of lines of Epic Games' copyrighted code, and then attempted to conceal its wrongdoing by removing Epic Games' copyright notices and by disguising Epic Games' copyrighted code as Silicon Knights' own

> Epic Games prevailed against Silicon Knights' lawsuit, and won its counter-suit for $4.45 million on grounds of copyright infringement,

> following the loss of the court case, Silicon Knights filed for bankruptcy

[baq]

If it doesn't work, oh well, you'll get VC money for something else.

If it works, the lawyers will figure it out.