Stealing of ideas and work of others in the digital space is so rampant this days, anybody can just copy the work of anyone they see both online and offline, without any punishment whatsoever.
One of the reasons why people just copy people’s post without fear of being caught is because there’s no strict law or rule guiding such act, to some extent there are laws but it's not strict enough to make the law firm.
People find it so easy to plagiarize and steal people's work because no one will penalize them for doing so, if there are laws guiding these things and punishment to face after, people would run far away from stealing people’s idea and work.
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A place like hive blockchain is so different, whereby there’s no way one could go scot free when caught in the act. Hivewatchers are always there to oversee what’s going on in the world of hive blockchain.
When I wanted to join few years back, I was told never to indulge in anything called plagiarism and since the instruction, I’ve never for once partake in anything that looks like copying and pasting other people’s idea. I would do my best to write my ideas.
It’s so painful seeing someone steal one’s brain work and mostly, they use It to make huge money and not even given any regard at all to the original content creator or owner.
On hive we’re being given a very strict warning never to partake in the dirty act, some refer to it as content theft. Definitely, criminals are not only the people that are carrying guns to kidnap and kill people. Those that are stealing people’s content are also thieves. Some people took their time to sit down and think deeply, it took some days, weeks, months before they come out with something good. Unfortunately some people will just wake up one day to steal the idea and the great deal of work within some minute or hour.
Some musicians have come online to say that some more popular musician stole their songs even providing evidence and to make matters worse these perpetrators do not give credit to the original owner of the song.
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I could remember that a musician called out another musician sometime ago about one of his songs that a content thief stole.
I’ve not for once experience such thing but the day I would get hold of anyone stealing my intellectual property, I want to believe that the person will see problem and call it pizza, such person will have himself or herself to blame. Because I can't be racking my brains day and night just for one person somewhere to come steal it within an hour and without giving honour to whom honour is due, giving the credit to the original owner of every material, content and so on.