I always hated the "You wouldn't steal a car" ad. That is bull sh*@. I do think here it is more of a big deal than most places since we DO make money off of our posts. The piracy ads treat watching a movie or something of that nature as the same as stealing a car. Not even close.

I am not debating whether it is a good thing or not, simply the type of ad used.

When someone steals something PRE-MPAA/RIAA ads and manipulation you take something and the owner no longer has that thing there. If I steal a car from your driveway you no longer have that car. With Intellectual property copying/downloading it would be like running up to a car lot... scanning the car... whipping out a printer and printing yourself up a car... and leaving the original still there.

Again I am not debating whether this is good, or moral. I am simply stating there is a big difference between stealing a car and copying something.

I do see a lot of that going on here. I've replied to people that I've seen reposting the work of people that are on steemit. I saw two different people reposting @clains work.

It is a murky thing since if our hope is that steemit become a place we can come instead of other places we will need people to tell us if they find things from other sites. I am fine with them doing that IF they acknowledge where they found it and link back to the original. If they don't do this then it's likely I won't ever see it.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.