Don't know what to tell you, think of china and the rest of the world ( excluding africa ). Almost everything is copied by the chinese, from handbags to entire towns even, no innovation whatsoever. ETC is china.
That is not entirely true,when Vitalik lost his money in the hack he forced a hard fork without the consensius and so is the reason we have two coins and even the so called dead coin Ethereum classic had a good rally recently and having a $17 plus dollar valuation is not a bad thing for a dead coin like everyone said. 