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Way to twist what “information wants to be free” means. Since when is copyrighted entertainment “information”? The phrase is obviously about real information, w
by emh68 9y ago
Way to twist what “information wants to be free” means. Since when is copyrighted entertainment “information”? The phrase is obviously about real information, which is an innate fact about the universe which can’t be copyrighted. Like 09F9 et al
- nybble41 9y agoThe sequence of letters which make up a certain book is "an innate fact about the universe". A detailed description of a picture (or sequence of pictures, i.e. a video), or an audio waveform, is no different. Information remains information even if the subject is copyrighted. Copyright enforcement in practice consists almost entirely in controlling the distribution of factual information about copyrighted works.
- emh68 9y agoThe sequence of letters which makes up the book is an innate fact about itself. Although we’re in philosophy territory now and that usually goes nowhere.