alt Hacker News> Maybe true in places with different cultural values like China or India.
No, this is a core trait of the whole concept of copyright.
Copyright is a legal tool to allow authors to claim the exclusive right to monetize their work. But from it's inception this same legal tool is designed to ensure the public has the right to access said copyrighted works without authorization, including but not limited to the right to the unauthorized access for personal use and how public domain is extended to all works.
This notion originates from France's copyright law, from which all copyright laws in the world directly or indirectly comes from. We are talking about centuries of legal history.
I was alluding to the lack of Software Patent and Copyright enforcement in some jurisdictions, and hoping people would connect the issue of isomorphic plagiarism on their own.
We are in the age of "Napster" for nonsense, and "free" stuff other people made is certainly a crowd-pleaser. =3