My favorite quote on the matter: > For Alex, the impossibility of making digital information copy-proof is a central truth of our age: something to be explaine

My favorite quote on the matter: > For Alex, the impossibility of making digital information copy-proof is a central truth of our age: something to be explained, and then re-explained, to judges, reporters, and businesspeople, in amicus curiae briefs and interviews on NPR. For me, it follows from the fact that the set of n-bit strings constitutes an orthogonal basis for Hilbert space. -- http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=32 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=32