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by nicbou 142 days ago
Someone, somewhere has to put some information online for the first time. I am one of those people.

This sort of thing was a problem before too. I had a few copycats myself. The difference is that those copycats competed on the same level, and this sort of shallow copying was still too expensive. Google can automate plagiarism at a scale and just shut the competition down.

They are the modern Terminal Railroad Association.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Terminal_Rail...