Examples Of Intellectual Property Theft

“...He had a saying, ‘good artists copy, great artists steal’...”, Steve Jobs quoting Pablo Picasso. According to FBI.gov intellectual property theft is defined as robbing people or companies of their ideas, inventions, and creative expressions. Intellectual property theft is one of the things that aided in the explosive growth of the computer and technology industry, but is much less common in the industry today. Was this theft justified due to companies not taking the necessary actions to prevent other companies from using their ideas? In the case of the budding computer industry, yes. Since the majority of young computer companies were using each other's ideas, hardware, etc. it was seen as a “combined effort” to promote and grow the high-tech industry.
The first reason I believe the theft was justified is because many companies used off the shelf hardware. When IBM built their first personal
Even from the very earliest of times, stealing has always been condemned and seen as morally wrong. In the caveman days, if one caveman stole from the other, the first would bludgeon the other one over the head protecting what was rightfully his. In the Bible, the Ten Commandments, a list of guidelines most members of Western Society adhere to and follow faithfully, states number eight as “Thou shalt not steal”. Breaking any one of the Commandments was, and still is, considered committing a “mortal sin”. In the time of the “Old West” era, it one man stole another man’s horse, the “convicted” man would hang from the closest tree. Over the last 80 years or so, theft has become more commonplace and acceptable, and the severity of the crime dictates whether or not the act is even punishable by law. Over time, the moral correctness “lines” have become blurred and even ignored; however, the person doing the stealing or committing the theft, knows deep down what they are doing is wrong, plain and