Stealing-The many different forms!
Hello all,
Before proceeding a humble request, if you are able to, please donate a few dollars towards the website Wikipedia. Just yesterday, I donated $20, my way of showing appreciation towards the site. For this blog I do use Wikipedia as well as Wikimedia Commons. The research I do many times using Wikipedia and the beautiful mythological pictures, I use from the site Wikimedia Commons. The organization provides objective, factual information without bias, opinion or aggrandizements. Such information is very crucial for a blog as this and for the knowledge of normal everyday being. So, please consider donating a small amount. I am not a spokesperson for the Wikimedia foundation and I don't receive any money towards it as well. Just a genuine request for a great organization to thrive, that is all. Now, to the post.
Namaste! Hope all of you had a great week, where you were able to find your greater purpose towards your life as well as the Goddess Earth we live in. This week why don't we look at another area that many times we come across in our life? In today's world all of us are communicating through cell phones, computers, tablets and kindles. We are busy searching, exploring, communicating and collaborating. Good. The world is very much interconnected and using the resource of word in a very cooperative way.
In between a small scale industry (or is it large scale?) has mushroomed all around the world. This particular aspect comes to light in many forms. Normal, every day human is getting fed up with this phenomenon. It exists in several forms and names. Let us explore it more.
Plagiarism and related aspects: In a University or school setting, this phenomenon is called 'Plagiarism'. Plagiarism is the wrongful act of copying or stealing another's idea, thoughts, words or articulations. A University or school has the mission of encouraging genuine thoughts and ideas. It is the temple where the mind as well as the thought process gets expanded. In such a place, plagiarism is like a cancer that brings the original idea person down and the thief to get credit for the work that he or she didn't put any effort towards. Universities and schools treat plagiarism like plague.
There is also another aspect attached to this. A University thrives on it's trusted reputation. The reputation and trust is the factor that attracts students and their parents to the prestigious Universities. Any time it becomes apparent that a University is not rooting out plagiarism, the trust in the authenticity of the University is lost. Then it becomes a mere University on the paper without the underlying trust. That one thing is enough for students and parents to go in search of other institutions. Hence, Universities treat plagiarism as plague and have a zero tolerance policy.
Another important aspect is 'Intellectual property'. According to Wikipedia, "Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect." This is a huge deal in University as well as industry settings. According to the IP, trade marks, patents, copy rights, and trade secrets are maintained. In an industry setting, a patent under a company name can bring in millions worth of profits to a company. In the case of drug companies a patent is given for twenty years. It can be for the molecule, the process, or the final product. No other company can manufacture according to the patent details. That give the company with the patent, market advantage of twenty years over other companies. Think about it. Twenty years of no competitions, profit margins and bottom lines.
So, the companies go to war in the court rooms if they suspect there is the violation of IP. For example the company Roche filed lawsuits against Indian companies Biocon and Mylan for making biosimilars (similar product manufactured by another company) of its breast cancer drug Trastuzumab. It is about a company's profits for years to come. They protect their IP with tooth and nail. Same way the Universities collaborate with the industry. So, to have a genuine collaboration without legal hazards a genuine idea or thought process is needed. If the data or the idea has been plagiarized the trust on the University as well as the company is lost among the business community as well as people. So, plagiarism has a zero tolerance policy. Any student plagiarizing would be rusticated from college and a scientist would have black mark for his/her life and won't be allowed to pursue research.
Hacking: Nowadays another aspect of plagiarism is wide spread in the internet realm. Hacking. It is the gaining of access into unauthorized websites of organizations. People hack words, ideas, thoughts, attitudes, what not. There are small scale industries all across the globe where scores of people are deep in the coding realm copying everything they can get their hands on. People are hacking into governmental institutions, military websites and political party headquarters. As, many of you may know the 2016 United States election was decided on many such happenings. Here are some news associated with it. DNC email leak, Podesta emails, Russian influence on elections.
This is to show hacking do have important influence on every day human life and decisions. It looks cool for a movie theme or story. But in real life scenario drastic changes can happen in our every day life due to such ulterior motives. Such activities can change the perceptions and thought process of minds. Without even knowing consciously, people can be influenced to make decisions. Here in this blog, mind is an important topic we discuss regularly. Give it a thought. Being influenced subconsciously without our own intentional approval. This is the technique many times the cult leaders, political or terrorist organizations use.
A person won't even be aware that they are a puppet in the hands of another person. By the time they wake up, many times irreversible damage would have happened, or they would have lost enormous amount of time. Think about it. A whole nation called Germany became captive under one person called Adolf Hitler. Later from Germany that thought propaganda overflowed to countries like Poland, Austria and even liberal countries like France and Denmark. All in all eleven countries were affected. So, we may think hacking or political propaganda can only affect someone in another part of the world. No, it can affect us and our surroundings if we are not aware and careful.
Scamming: Now to the next set. Scams. People who have ulterior intentions behave as genuine governmental, state organizations or trust worthy individuals and collect money from people. Mainly scammers target the older populations who are not very familiar with online information and sites. So, the websites as well as such people target innocent persons who are brought to believe a late fee or punishment fee is supposed to be paid or else the person would be fined or arrested. There would be scams as long as people fallen victims to it.
Nowadays scammers contact innocent people even from other countries through phones, websites or apps. As the world has become global in communications, so has the scamming as well. For every good thing that happens to humanity, there comes the shadow side as well. We have discussed before, the light as well as the shadow side are the two ends of the same spectrum. For the same genuine Wikipedia that confers information, there are tonnes of websites that cheat and take advantage of people using ulterior actions. So, as humans we need to keep our minds and intellects smart and sharp. To survive in such a world normal human beings need to become wiser and smarter.
Identity theft: Next. This one is where a person acts and functions like another person. In this case, if a person loses a credit or a debit card and gets in the hands of not a good individual, then that person acts as the person who lost their card and uses the card towards their purchases. This is stealing. The credit or debit card as well as the money that comes with it is not the money of the stealer. So, by behaving as another, they are stealing the identity of the person who lost the card. Here the motive is ulterior.
Now, the person whose identity has been stolen has days of headaches for the next few weeks or months. They would have to prove they are the genuine person in whose name the card is. Everywhere they have to prove their identity and trustworthiness. So, it is not enough to be genuine these days, but we also should be smart and wise to protect ourselves from the people who are not genuine. The Universe is indeed made of light and shadow side. While aligning with the light side, our Dharma is also to protect ourselves from the shadow side of the material world.
Deep/Dark web: Hope all of you have heard these terms. These are the networks that cannot be accessed by regular internet browsing. Deep web many times is genuine where an individual needs authorization to use that particular information. This is needed to protect medical information about patients or the financial information about banks and organizations. Even military secrets. That should not be accessible to every normal person. It has to be protected from random eye. But even in the deep web there could be malware or websites that have computer virus content.
Underneath this comes the dark web. These can be people within organizations that interact together and the normal people would have no clue such a network or organization exists. The information about these websites don't come up on regular searches. Search engines that index websites cannot access the information or these websites. This can be the perfect ground for illegal and criminal activities many times.
I was planning to discuss the energy of plagiarism this week. But without a write up on the many types of stealing or plagiarism can occur, it becomes difficult to explain the energy associated with it. There can be another ten different varieties of stealing. If we are not aware we may not even know something has been stolen from us as words, information or ideas.In the Universities, if a Scientist or researcher is found guilty of plagiarism, they can be barred from teaching or Science for life. That is how much serious the issue of stealing of words and ideas are.
Nowadays the next industry that has blossomed is cybersecurity. Every organization has tight cybersecurity walls that help to keep the worms, virus, hackers, and scammers away. Even then the stealers try their best to steal, scam, hack and thieve any data or information they can get their hands on. Many times it becomes a challenge to protect one's own thoughts or ideas. If the stealers could get into a creative person's mind, they would find a way for that as well. That is how the world is moving nowadays. Can we see the correlation? The energy of Rahu, the thief, written all over the shadow side of the internet.
Another fact, the second a writer writes a word or a sentence, the writer's name is attached fully to the written word. The copyright for that word is solidly with the writer, whether they applied for a copyright protection or not. So, for example, every word I write on this blog has my name and signature deeply etched on it, whether I apply for a copyright or not. That is how words and ideas are protected. But people who don't want to put in the work, just copy and paste another's thoughts and ideas onto their stories, books, or websites.
But as the thieves never brought their own creativity into their writing, information or data, the words were never theirs to start with. The energy here that comes into picture is that of stealing. Stealing becomes the shadow side of learning or spreading good words. So, once the shadow side comes into play, the energy that comes about also would be very far from the light, knowledge and wisdom. How about we discuss the energy dynamics of stealing next week?
I wish you a good weekend and I'll see you next Friday!😉
Next week: The energy of Plagiarism!
Credits: Images from Wikimedia Commons and Pixabay.com
Before proceeding a humble request, if you are able to, please donate a few dollars towards the website Wikipedia. Just yesterday, I donated $20, my way of showing appreciation towards the site. For this blog I do use Wikipedia as well as Wikimedia Commons. The research I do many times using Wikipedia and the beautiful mythological pictures, I use from the site Wikimedia Commons. The organization provides objective, factual information without bias, opinion or aggrandizements. Such information is very crucial for a blog as this and for the knowledge of normal everyday being. So, please consider donating a small amount. I am not a spokesperson for the Wikimedia foundation and I don't receive any money towards it as well. Just a genuine request for a great organization to thrive, that is all. Now, to the post.
Namaste! Hope all of you had a great week, where you were able to find your greater purpose towards your life as well as the Goddess Earth we live in. This week why don't we look at another area that many times we come across in our life? In today's world all of us are communicating through cell phones, computers, tablets and kindles. We are busy searching, exploring, communicating and collaborating. Good. The world is very much interconnected and using the resource of word in a very cooperative way.
In between a small scale industry (or is it large scale?) has mushroomed all around the world. This particular aspect comes to light in many forms. Normal, every day human is getting fed up with this phenomenon. It exists in several forms and names. Let us explore it more.
Plagiarism and related aspects: In a University or school setting, this phenomenon is called 'Plagiarism'. Plagiarism is the wrongful act of copying or stealing another's idea, thoughts, words or articulations. A University or school has the mission of encouraging genuine thoughts and ideas. It is the temple where the mind as well as the thought process gets expanded. In such a place, plagiarism is like a cancer that brings the original idea person down and the thief to get credit for the work that he or she didn't put any effort towards. Universities and schools treat plagiarism like plague.
 |
| Plagiarism-Stealing the words and ideas of another! Image credits-Wikimedia Commons, RyanMinkoff [CC BY-SA 4.0 ] |
There is also another aspect attached to this. A University thrives on it's trusted reputation. The reputation and trust is the factor that attracts students and their parents to the prestigious Universities. Any time it becomes apparent that a University is not rooting out plagiarism, the trust in the authenticity of the University is lost. Then it becomes a mere University on the paper without the underlying trust. That one thing is enough for students and parents to go in search of other institutions. Hence, Universities treat plagiarism as plague and have a zero tolerance policy.
Another important aspect is 'Intellectual property'. According to Wikipedia, "Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect." This is a huge deal in University as well as industry settings. According to the IP, trade marks, patents, copy rights, and trade secrets are maintained. In an industry setting, a patent under a company name can bring in millions worth of profits to a company. In the case of drug companies a patent is given for twenty years. It can be for the molecule, the process, or the final product. No other company can manufacture according to the patent details. That give the company with the patent, market advantage of twenty years over other companies. Think about it. Twenty years of no competitions, profit margins and bottom lines.
So, the companies go to war in the court rooms if they suspect there is the violation of IP. For example the company Roche filed lawsuits against Indian companies Biocon and Mylan for making biosimilars (similar product manufactured by another company) of its breast cancer drug Trastuzumab. It is about a company's profits for years to come. They protect their IP with tooth and nail. Same way the Universities collaborate with the industry. So, to have a genuine collaboration without legal hazards a genuine idea or thought process is needed. If the data or the idea has been plagiarized the trust on the University as well as the company is lost among the business community as well as people. So, plagiarism has a zero tolerance policy. Any student plagiarizing would be rusticated from college and a scientist would have black mark for his/her life and won't be allowed to pursue research.
Hacking: Nowadays another aspect of plagiarism is wide spread in the internet realm. Hacking. It is the gaining of access into unauthorized websites of organizations. People hack words, ideas, thoughts, attitudes, what not. There are small scale industries all across the globe where scores of people are deep in the coding realm copying everything they can get their hands on. People are hacking into governmental institutions, military websites and political party headquarters. As, many of you may know the 2016 United States election was decided on many such happenings. Here are some news associated with it. DNC email leak, Podesta emails, Russian influence on elections.
 |
| Hacking, another form of stealing! Image credits-Pixabay.com |
This is to show hacking do have important influence on every day human life and decisions. It looks cool for a movie theme or story. But in real life scenario drastic changes can happen in our every day life due to such ulterior motives. Such activities can change the perceptions and thought process of minds. Without even knowing consciously, people can be influenced to make decisions. Here in this blog, mind is an important topic we discuss regularly. Give it a thought. Being influenced subconsciously without our own intentional approval. This is the technique many times the cult leaders, political or terrorist organizations use.
A person won't even be aware that they are a puppet in the hands of another person. By the time they wake up, many times irreversible damage would have happened, or they would have lost enormous amount of time. Think about it. A whole nation called Germany became captive under one person called Adolf Hitler. Later from Germany that thought propaganda overflowed to countries like Poland, Austria and even liberal countries like France and Denmark. All in all eleven countries were affected. So, we may think hacking or political propaganda can only affect someone in another part of the world. No, it can affect us and our surroundings if we are not aware and careful.
Scamming: Now to the next set. Scams. People who have ulterior intentions behave as genuine governmental, state organizations or trust worthy individuals and collect money from people. Mainly scammers target the older populations who are not very familiar with online information and sites. So, the websites as well as such people target innocent persons who are brought to believe a late fee or punishment fee is supposed to be paid or else the person would be fined or arrested. There would be scams as long as people fallen victims to it.
 |
| Scams, another way to steal! Image credits-Pixabay.com |
Nowadays scammers contact innocent people even from other countries through phones, websites or apps. As the world has become global in communications, so has the scamming as well. For every good thing that happens to humanity, there comes the shadow side as well. We have discussed before, the light as well as the shadow side are the two ends of the same spectrum. For the same genuine Wikipedia that confers information, there are tonnes of websites that cheat and take advantage of people using ulterior actions. So, as humans we need to keep our minds and intellects smart and sharp. To survive in such a world normal human beings need to become wiser and smarter.
Identity theft: Next. This one is where a person acts and functions like another person. In this case, if a person loses a credit or a debit card and gets in the hands of not a good individual, then that person acts as the person who lost their card and uses the card towards their purchases. This is stealing. The credit or debit card as well as the money that comes with it is not the money of the stealer. So, by behaving as another, they are stealing the identity of the person who lost the card. Here the motive is ulterior.
Now, the person whose identity has been stolen has days of headaches for the next few weeks or months. They would have to prove they are the genuine person in whose name the card is. Everywhere they have to prove their identity and trustworthiness. So, it is not enough to be genuine these days, but we also should be smart and wise to protect ourselves from the people who are not genuine. The Universe is indeed made of light and shadow side. While aligning with the light side, our Dharma is also to protect ourselves from the shadow side of the material world.
Deep/Dark web: Hope all of you have heard these terms. These are the networks that cannot be accessed by regular internet browsing. Deep web many times is genuine where an individual needs authorization to use that particular information. This is needed to protect medical information about patients or the financial information about banks and organizations. Even military secrets. That should not be accessible to every normal person. It has to be protected from random eye. But even in the deep web there could be malware or websites that have computer virus content.
 |
| The internet in it's full form! Image credits-Ranjithsiji [CC BY-SA 4.0] |
Underneath this comes the dark web. These can be people within organizations that interact together and the normal people would have no clue such a network or organization exists. The information about these websites don't come up on regular searches. Search engines that index websites cannot access the information or these websites. This can be the perfect ground for illegal and criminal activities many times.
I was planning to discuss the energy of plagiarism this week. But without a write up on the many types of stealing or plagiarism can occur, it becomes difficult to explain the energy associated with it. There can be another ten different varieties of stealing. If we are not aware we may not even know something has been stolen from us as words, information or ideas.In the Universities, if a Scientist or researcher is found guilty of plagiarism, they can be barred from teaching or Science for life. That is how much serious the issue of stealing of words and ideas are.
Nowadays the next industry that has blossomed is cybersecurity. Every organization has tight cybersecurity walls that help to keep the worms, virus, hackers, and scammers away. Even then the stealers try their best to steal, scam, hack and thieve any data or information they can get their hands on. Many times it becomes a challenge to protect one's own thoughts or ideas. If the stealers could get into a creative person's mind, they would find a way for that as well. That is how the world is moving nowadays. Can we see the correlation? The energy of Rahu, the thief, written all over the shadow side of the internet.
 |
| Copyright symbol! Image credits-Pixabay.com |
But as the thieves never brought their own creativity into their writing, information or data, the words were never theirs to start with. The energy here that comes into picture is that of stealing. Stealing becomes the shadow side of learning or spreading good words. So, once the shadow side comes into play, the energy that comes about also would be very far from the light, knowledge and wisdom. How about we discuss the energy dynamics of stealing next week?
I wish you a good weekend and I'll see you next Friday!😉
Next week: The energy of Plagiarism!
Credits: Images from Wikimedia Commons and Pixabay.com
![RyanMinkoff [CC BY-SA 4.0 ]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plagiarism_signature.jpg){kind=link}
![Ranjithsiji [CC BY-SA 4.0]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deepweb_graphical_representation.svg){kind=link}
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