- He didn't get away with it. Richard Prince i a provocateur and I guess he had artistic and commercial interests that trumped the expenses from getting in court
- Steemit is not different. From a legal point of view I guess it is just a website, just like Youtube or Facebook.
- I think not
But it is true that the money involved here on Steemit does attract this kind of behaviour. It is just naive to belive that there is not any monetary agendas on other media too. Here it is just out in the open.
Do you accept the premise that we are all shareholders in here and that we bare direct responsibility?
Nowhere else the profits are tied up to everyone in the network. Again. it is much like the torrent sites.
If you want to address the risk of lawsuits, you have to see the whole case from a judicial point of view instead of a technical one.