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> Then use something else. Sure, until that feature is built into almost everything and it becomes mandatory to use it. Filing an income tax return? You must u
by cantrevealname 6y ago
> Then use something else.
Sure, until that feature is built into almost everything and it becomes mandatory to use it. Filing an income tax return? You must use this online system that captures every edit and every keystroke. There is no other way to file.
When people complain about lack of privacy when using credit cards and bank cards, would you dismiss it by saying, use something else -- just use cash? I could list a hundred things that you can no longer pay with cash.
- mcherm 6y agoLook, if you can assume that the legal system will start caring about specific edits along the way to the final draft, and you can assume that essentially all tools will start tracking the history of these changes, and you can assume that the trivial fix (copy paste the final version into a new document) will be underlined either technically or legally, then I can assume that Congress will change the law to make these inconsequential details no longer matter. (It's highly unlikely that Congress would actually do a useful thing, but then the sum total of all your assumptions was also highly unlikely, wasn't it?)
- simonh 6y agoWhere on Earth did that come from?
- oauea 6y agoDid you miss the (2014) in the title?
- o-__-o 6y agoHas case law determined an outcome yet? I can’t think how in the world it would rule in favor of the plagiarist though. Just more of a reason to write your document in notepad or on a collaborative system you control. You don’t control the hardware, then someone else can walk off with the software (or output of the software)