Reply #164: If you wanted your work to remain "yours," you should have kept it to yourself.

[themadstork]

It's the nature of creative and intellectual work that once it is publicly available, it is no longer "owned" by "you." Ideas are not private property. Copyright laws were introduced to give creators incentive to introduce their work into the great cultural commons of shared ideas, NOT to prevent the "theft" of your ideas, or to ensure you can horde your intellectual work as if it were gold. Read the case file on the recent lawsuit that Righthaven lost, or buy a book on the history of copyright. These are not anti-theft laws, and pretending that they are is playing completely into the hand of our venerable corporate overlords.