thanks! i've not worried much about stuff like pirated movies before, but the theft of work and done by the lone artist affects their income; whether they will continue to create or be forced into a common job they detest. on the web, we can either rely on personal integrity to oversee content, which is chancy at best, or implement a big brother scenario, which will dissuade participation. as you say it's nearly impossible to monitor or enforce.
what i see here at steemit may (i hope) simply be lack of education. hence the post. but i cannot rule out laziness or greed. the get easy money value pushed by the downside of capitalism is to blame here, not to mention lack of ethics. in my experience, we can't make people responsible when it's so easy not to be.
some brilliant person will eventually create a program that prevents others from copying written content on sites with cut paste so that this becomes a bit more difficult to do.. until then..
people have advanced now such that even though such program is designed, they will still take time and do the typing by themselves if the cut and paste features are not made available.