A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed. Researchers have defined confidence tricks as "a distinctive species of fraudulent conduct ... intending to further voluntary exchanges that are not mutually beneficial", as they "benefit con operators ('con men') at the expense of their victims (the 'marks')".[1]
Picture yourself. Being an enthusiastic computer blogger king wannabee. You want to make a dent in the universe ast the great Steve Jobs has motivated zillions to be in the computer age.
So you subscribe to a blogging platform. And then start posting. You have been given all the support: to upload pictures, videos, to edit your posts, links, reading materials, maps, GPS, library of videos. You are provided with metrics, and feedback on how well you are doing. Over the course of the years what have you accomplished for the blogging platform:
1. Thousands of pictures with description and location
2. Thousands of articles. Content that are searchable. You have added hundreds, thousands of
articles that are searchable expanding their search engine encouraging more clicks and searches
You and millions of others are doing that daily, uploading millions of articles and pictures, expanding the WWW. You are lucky iif you are monetized because you are monetized (if you reach the number of subscribers and viewers). For the million others, what do they get.?
The platform does not need to employ and pay: 1 writers 2. photographers. They get it for free. In the process they get to be the biggest company on earth earning zillions.
They simply match and meet the needs of the writers and the wannabees to be popular, and have high number of views and clicks
These platforms should thank and honor their employees. Their supporters and workers worldwide
What a great meeting of opportunity and availability of infrastructures
There was a saying that "Artists copy masters steal" meaning that most "original innovation" or inventions are stolen. So in the movie "Silicon Valley" how two great master in computer were into this game. About OS, and the windows being a copy from Apples icons.
And then lately we see at Netflix a case involving claims that Google Earth was stolen from Terra Vision? We see how great lawyers and expert witness (Bryan Anderson) settled the claims in favor of Google
