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"Just like you can't fart in public and charge bystanders for the scent - you can't broadcast facts into the public and expect people not to recall them. I mean
by DannyBee 9y ago
"Just like you can't fart in public and charge bystanders for the scent - you can't broadcast facts into the public and expect people not to recall them. I mean, you can. But good luck with that!
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Do you also believe you can take the satellite tv signals beamed at your house and decrypt them?
After all, they broadcasted them as widely as they possibly could!
If they didn't want you to watch them, they shouldn't have sent it to you!
(This is a great in-theory argument that simply does not mesh well with our law in reality)
- icebraining 9y agoPersonally, I do think it should be legal to decrypt them.
- graphitezepp 9y agoSame. Little did parent commentator know, there are plenty of radical "all information should be free" thinkers in these parts.
- wsy 9y agoIf the broadcasted stream is encrypted, and the key is not public, it is obviously not public data. If the stream is unencrypted, the reasoning applies perfectly.