On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:53:12 EST, Charles Morris said: > A) Every time you execute/install/download a program you are > committing evil data theft by not only copying Actually, at least in the US, the copy into RAM required to execute a program is already covered in 17 USC 117 (a)(1). http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_00000117----000-.html There is no similar rule covering the ephemeral incidental copy created as part of viewing a webpage, nor is there case law covering it, mostly because everybody is too scared to bring a test case to trial because it may result in a precident nobody likes. So the general case law has tended towards a gentleman's agreement that a website has implicitly given permission to authorized users to make ephemeral copies similar to 117(a)(1), and prosecute unauthorized users under 18 USC 1030 and other computer hacking statutes, and we're all going to pretend the 'Save As..' menu option isn't there because it makes our collective brains hurt. ;) > B) You can't "copyright" or "own" a number, all digital > representations are numbers, due to the boolean nature (no fuzzy > data), etc. Nice try of saying "the encoding isn't the information". But that horse left the barn when sheet music became copyrightable - because whether it's symbols on sheet music, or grooves on a phonograph record, or digital recordings, you can copyright *that particular sequence* of symbols, wiggles, or numbers as expression. Heck, for that matter, the sequence of letters in a book. ;) > C) Any data is a form of any other data given a specific transform, > e.g. manifold / encryption key + algo, something as trivial as XOR Again, nice try. See Adobe v Skylarov and the use of ROT-13 for an example of how *that* logic worked out with respect to the DMCA anti-circumvention clause.
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