Don't care. Competition is good for consumers.

It is, but this isn't competition. This just copyright infringement.

Competition would be if these people created their own software, possibly innovating and improving it in the process. That would encourage Papermark to improve their own offering, and would create an environment where these businesses are economically incentivized to improve the product or service.

Nobody is incentivized to improve the software in question here. If copyright law doesn't protect anything, then improving your product is helping the competition and potentially hurting your business. Same is true if you're the people who did the infringement.

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irdc 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

When it plays fair, sure. Not when it steals.

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weregiraffe an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Stealing is the opposite of competition. It's in the same category as straight killing your competitors.

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Eufrat 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Let’s not even talk about the feature. Copying the entire visual design itself with superficial tweaks is pretty brazen and, frankly, incredibly lazy.

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augment_me 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Who cares if the consumer buys it and uses it? Information is worth nothing anymore, attention is, so if they manage to capture a larger audience somehow, they win.

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otterley 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Information is worth nothing anymore

What do you do for a living? For most of us in the tech industry, information being worth something (because it takes creative and intellectual labor to produce) puts food on our tables.

	▲	augment_me 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		LLMs produce about 95% of the code at my company and review about 70% of it for 3 years now. Our team has downsized from 40 to 8 people in this time. My creative labor is spent writing harnesses and wrappers. When there is enough of a data distribution on this, the LLMs will be able to do that as well. I have saved up a buffer in funds and bonds because it's going to be over at some point when the company moves from explore to exploit.

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Eufrat an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

This laissez-faire logic is insane, but I think it is telling that a lot of folks here seem to have this mindset and makes me empathize with increasingly nihilistic people.

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dgb23 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

When competition has no rules it resorts to people banging each other over their heads with clubs.

	▲	Eufrat 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		People argue for less regulations until they are the ones eating crow.