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yeah. Data and physical good are the same thing.
by malka 11y ago
yeah. Data and physical good are the same thing.
- DougN7 11y agoThe dollar bill's value has nothing to do with its physical properties.
- sokoloff 11y agoWhich is also true for an mp4 file of a movie or mp3 file of a song or a CD of shrinkwrap software.
- DougN7 11y agoExactly. So the person's example seems to hold: duplicating dollars isn't a good idea economically, and would have a negative impact like duplicating mp4 movies - it reduces the value of the thing being duplicated.
- crimsonalucard 11y agoThere's approximately 75 trillion dollars worth of money on this earth. Only 5 trillion of that money is paper dollars. The rest is data! http://gizmodo.com/5995301/how-much-money-is-there-on-earth http://gizmodo.com/5995301/how-much-money-is-there-on-earth
- malka 11y agoYes. I'd venture that copying this data would not have the effect of creating money. Altering it, however would.