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> a user or program should be allowed to do anything they choose with the bits they receive. They can alter, modify, ignore, strip, or save any part of it. If
by dakom 9y ago
> a user or program should be allowed to do anything they choose with the bits they receive. They can alter, modify, ignore, strip, or save any part of it.
If you sign a NDA with Coca-Cola, and they share their recipe with you via email, you're allowed to do "anything you choose" with it?
If you sign a partnership contract with Google, and they share their algorithms with you, you're allowed to do "anything you choose" with it?
Where's the line exactly of how far you can violate a contract simply because the property - intellectual and otherwise, can be represented as bits?
- Retra 9y agoObviously, when you're selling proprietary information. A service should have no right to enforce reinterpretation of the bits received any more than you have a right to enforce how people are to interpret the semantic content of your posts. (And in fact, I could easily go around selling my reinterpretation, and that only becomes a problem once you're arguing damages.)
- dakom 9y agoYes, financial damages is what happens when you "reinterpret" bits against contractual agreements.