This rhetoric of theft is both wrong in infuriating. This is the language the major record labels insisted on using to be able to call people who shared music "thieves".
You can't own ideas, you can't really own music. You can have legal recognition of certain rights around your art (authors's rights, copyright).
I think from the perspective of creators, the issue is that companies are transforming original art into systems capable of generating endless derivative material, for profit, and often now for military intelligence and intervention, which is polite society speak for killing people in other countries. Understandably, creators of said art aren't delighted to see their work put to that use.
But then these companies that have transformed original human thought, ideas and art into a derivative hybrid complain that other companies are transforming their derivative into another derivative? Ans they want us to take them seriously?
Inventing a robot that answers anyone's questions and then complaining it's answering anyone's questions is very much a problem no one should give two shits about.
This is a bit like saying crossing the street blindfolded while juggling chainsaws and crossing the street on a pedestrian crossing while the light is red for cars both carry risk. Sure. One's a terrible idea though.
Oh the example in the article is the nice version if this attack.
Checking the script as downloaded by wget or curl and then piping curl to bash is still a terrible idea, as you have no guarantee you'll get the same script in both cases:
Physicist Education is amazing and one of their most catchy songs.
I didn't think one really needs to recommend any in particular to demonstrate their musical ability, they are all complex and impressive. And good! the technicality serves the music, not the other way round.
Most people don't know how to use ftp anymore. It's a pretty limited protocol (and requires 2 open ports to function). It's hard to integrate with good modern auth solutions. Probably more, that's off the top of my head.
Sure, but the us (and Israel) don't recognise the international court of justice, despite helping found it, so what are the chances of something coming out of that?
EXACTLY.