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> Violate one or two copyrights, get sued or DMCAed out of existence. Violate billions, on the other hand, and you magically become immune to the rules everyone else has to follow.

Sounds like the same concept as commonly said of "murderer vs conqueror".

Could probably be applied to many other fields for disruption too. Not the murderer bit (!), more the "break one or two laws -> scaled up massively to a potential new paradigm".



"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."


Pretty sure there's a bunch of pre-existing laws around that though, so not really ripe for disrupting by scaling up the problem. ;)




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