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No, because a computer is a tool, and if you lend your tools to someone who then makes money from their own creations, they don't owe you a dime. Now, if you rent your tools to them and they don't pay rent you can probably sue them for it, but it still doesn't entitle you to ownership of their IP. That's simply not how the world works.


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