As someone who’s taught writing at two major U.S. universities, I’ll say only that this post grossly oversimplifies the complex legal specialty known as intellectual property theft, which the FBI defines as “robbing people or companies of their ideas, inventions, and creative expressions.” I encourage anyone who’s thinking of taking the advice in this post first to read this FBI page on “Intellectual Property Theft": https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/white-collar-crime/piracy-ip-theft

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