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I read an article (>10 years ago so sadly I don't recall the title) about how computer science people see data differently from law people. Computers know not
by Jwarder 7y ago
I read an article (>10 years ago so sadly I don't recall the title) about how computer science people see data differently from law people. Computers know nothing about the intent of data, it is only bits. The law (nominally) tries to figure out intent behind the data. It is possible to encode any data so it looks like a random stream of numbers; the law doesn't care what you did to the data, just if you intend to use that data to do something illegal. The user's intent colors the data.
- Tyr42 7y agohttps://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 Colour of your bits.
- wrs 7y agoBooks are just arrangements of ink molecules on paper. You can't have a copyright on ink molecules, right? They're just a natural phenomenon. Obviously that's silly — the thing with copyright is not the literal arrangement of ink molecules, it's the work represented by the arrangement. Similarly, bits are math, but a specific arrangement of bits can represent a work with copyright.