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

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

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.

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.

Sure, this is why IBM gets a cut for every IBM-compatible PC clone sold /s

They don’t.

Exactly - I suppose this makes you one of today's lucky 10,000 [0] to learn about the sarcasm tag [1]. Welcome to the club of those in-the-know :)

[0] https://xkcd.com/1053/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_indicator#Internet_usage

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