Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing

Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by pitaj on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @10:53AM (#20810169)

All of my public work is open source under the MIT license.

Just because you aren't protected by the government, doesn't mean you can't protect your inventions through secrecy.

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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by EvanAnderson on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @11:19AM (#20810508)

This is one of the points I'm more pragmatic about. Secrecy breeds loss. The products of human creative toil should be kept and enjoyed by all, versus being locked-up being veils of secrecy that inevitably lead to their loss. The only way to preserve ideas is for them to proliferate.

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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by wolfgke on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @11:34AM (#20810699)

> The products of human creative toil should be kept and enjoyed by all, versus being locked-up being veils of secrecy that inevitably lead to their loss.

Tell that to Disney:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disney_Vault&oldi...

UPDATE: Another example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20810558

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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by ceejayoz on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @10:54AM (#20810187)

Secrecy only works for some types of work.

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