Comment by tracerbulletx

2 days ago

IP primarily existed for hundreds of years on things that are easy to copy. Technical difficulty is not relevant.

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LocalH  2 days ago

Hundreds of years ago, nothing was easy to copy, until the printing press. Early copyright surrounding that wasn’t about “IP protection” but rather who had the right to operate a printing press at all

lrvick  2 days ago

And yet the clean room reverse engineering loophole remains in effect in the US.

It just used to take a lot of human labor, but LLMs are closing that gap. Fast.

  • toobulkeh  2 days ago

    You’re missing the point of the parent comment. IP exists BECAUSE things are easy to copy. If Apple REA’d Windows and sold it, Microsoft will get paid BECAUSE of IP. The system is working as designed.