When people steal your ideas or concepts, when they still your original story or music, you feel dejected, don't you? You feel angry and you want to come out all guns blazing and beat the shit out of the thief.
That's how most of us react and that's the natural thing to do, isn't it?
I also do the same thing.
But why don't we all take a step back and actually think about it? Is it all really so bad? Is it really so detrimental to me if someone steals my ideas and shares them as their own?
Well, in some cases it obviously is. No doubts.
But I think that's not the case always.
So here are some positives of a seemingly negative thing.
You inspire people
No one steals a bad idea. There's enough BS out there which no one cares about, so if someone tries to pass of your creation as their own, it means your idea was liked.
It was found to be claim-worthy. People copy great ideas.
Fan fiction is created for great books, not the shitty ones. Think about it.
Your idea spreads
Even though HBO is apparently not happy with Game of Thrones becoming the most pirated show in history with each season crossing the previous season's illegal download records, the actual primetime or legal view records are also being broken every year, often multiple times in the same season.
I am sure GoT would not have become the global phenomenon it has become today had it not been for torrents. It was not even available in many countries in the first few seasons, so how did it become popular in those countries for HBO to now make a killing business in virtually all markets in the last few seasons?
Because stolen ideas spread like wildfire.
You may not always make a killing out of it, but boy what would I not give to be the creator of "an idea whose time has come." An idea which catches on.
All things in life are not for monetary gain, some of it is for social and cultural change as well, and stolen ideas can become powerful forces which can bring about that change.
Look at all the copy-cat blockchains out there, some of them will surely change the world in the coming years.
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