User blog comment:Solomus-BlackWing/Grim dark wiki/@comment-1657156-20130422070021

Is it legal to steal this wiki's content under Copyleft rules? Probably. Right... There is something gloriously amusing about the wording used. ☺

At any rate, as one of the resident Adeptus Litigos around here... Well, let me just say two things:

1. This day in age especially on the Internet, as a practical matter, a person can get away with almost any kind of 'copyright infringement'/I.P.piracy/plagiarism that isn't commercial or carried out on a giant scale. And you know what...? THAT'S A GOOD THING. While there's 100s of reasons for why this, it might be worth mentioning (though not explaining...) a few of them. For starters, it allows for information and ideas to spread from one person to another very rapidly. For another, it actually encourages creativity and top-notch work because it puts every piece of work on the same level as every other piece in terms of accessibility (in that financial and dissemination barriers are curbed) ; ergo, those works that climb to the top of the pack and become the ones that are the most known or celebrated or relied upon or even used for making money, are likely those works that are truly top notch and truly deserving. One other reason...? Without creating too much of a strain on resources, it provides the masses with a readily available form of leisure in the grim darkness of the 21st century. Bowling alleys aren't open 24hours a day; coliseums take years to construct; and even paper books take up space and materials. Not so with works on the web. This means, despite life sucking in countless ways in these times even when compared with previous decades -- greater likelihood of not having health care coverage; sexual and familial responsibility at an all time low; unemployment soaring and job security crumbling; gas rising in price; tuition becoming unaffordable -- since the web and the works that comprise it offer up a colossal and dynamic form of leisure that anyone can access, it can be the candle in the blackness of these contemporary times.

2. Heh. Listen... when you're doing wiki stuff, you don't do it for the rewards. In fact, you do it with the expectation that you won't be thanked and might even be taken advantage of. Is this a good thing or not? I can't say-- BUT, it is a good idea to adopt these phenomena as natural and to not let yourself be put off by them. Doing so allows you to remain focused on making and editing good conduct, and not get sidelined by such menaces as despair or bruised ego.

SOOOOooo...

Lighten up.