It still amazes me that people are upset or surprised by these things with the new legal market. Did people seriously think that in a legal market it would be a free for all? Did people think that it would be the same ol same ol?
There was a reason cannabis seeds were insanely over priced in the black market. The breeders had zero recourse for when others stole and used their genetics. Now a person can spend time and resources creating a truly unique plant and can actually be the person to profit off their work.
Maybe now people will stop calling themselves breeders when all they are is pollen chuckers to the newest hype strain. I personally don’t see anything wrong with this and think it will finally take us back to real breeding and get away from the joke the seed game has become the past 30 years. Think about, pretty much everything today is just a mix of skunk, nl, Durban, og, chem, sour and a few others. Real breeding died in the 80s-early 90s when people didn’t have to search for good plants and instead could just order a bunch of decent seeds and pollen chuck away.