profiting

Also, the notion that drug companies are purely profiting from the government is absurd.

With piracy as we have traditionally known it, at least usually the pirate is not directly profiting from his act of piracy.

And exceptionally one of those people profiting from it is even the one who put most work in it.

Someone (facebook and/or the page) was profiting directly or indirectly from the work, and not the author.

And how is that different from Youtube profiting from their users ripping off content creators and putting it up on Youtube?

There's surely somebody profiting unfairly from other people's hard work here, but it's Eolas.

But it's a whole different matter to set up a service dedicated to profiting from enabling behavior that's making other people miserable.

His biggest point is that Reddit is (trying) profiting from hosting that speech and thus the downsides of supporting Reddit outweigh the benefits.

So far in Ruby we have been profiting from nice syntax and object model, which in the end is what paired the balance and still made us use it.

If they're not profiting, then they're not using it, or are outright misusing it, so everyone else should be allowed a go at it.

Microsoft can't lock-in user to OS because most of the apps are now multiplatform so they are locking-in to their services and profiting from big data.

With freebooting, Facebook is literally profiting from other people's work.

Where does "setting up and creating a thing and then profiting as an absent owner" cross over into rent-seeking?

Not just that, but the fact that the content is unsearchable, and the fact that Facebook is profiting heavily from it as fuel for one of its latest "frictionless engagement" features is fairly damning.

Profiting from people's misfortune is not in and of itself wrong.

Profiting from the system by being employed there?

Profiting from either group is morally bankrupt.