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But what if I have an idemic memory?

FirmwareBurner 3y ago
Then you'd be able to draw and type out everything from scratch directly on your employer's PC and not have to download it via USB drives or email, like this guy did.
- chii 3y ago
  So if you obtained an idemic memory via installing a camera, flash drive and io ports into your brain? How or why is the mere transport method of information the distinction between infringement of IP vs not?
  - FirmwareBurner 3y ago
    Probably because very few people have idetic memory to store 6GB of data in their brains with the utmost fidelity and unless you can also install a printer to your brain, it would take you a long time to reproduce 6GB of data by hand from your brain. Transport method it is because it means there's hard proof and a paper trail of the IP theft that you can prove in court. Memorizing something has no paper trail and also leads to a clean room deisgn. That's why companies want to hire people or entire teams, to do clean room deign, without any of the original data. If I go watch a movie and then tell people what I saw it's fine. If I record the movie with a camera and show it on screen that's the IP theft.
unethical_ban 3y ago
Then congratulations, you're able to ~~excel~~ exfil more data. We live in an imperfect world and solve problems as best we can.
anonymouskimmer 3y ago
Then copyright comes in to play. You should have been taught how to avoid plagiarism in school. Use those techniques to reimplement. These techniques involve more than just using synonyms and rephrasing.
themoonisachees 3y ago
Idemic or "photographic" memory as depicted in popular culture does not exist. most of the people who can remember a lot of information very quickly are actually on some level of deliberately using mnemotechnique methods, such as nursery ryhming (like that one released soldier in vietnam) or graph traversal. it's preposterous to assume that anyone could recite fragmented data such as source code simply by being exposed to it (ie not by purposefully memorizing it)
hobs 3y ago
Then it's fine in the United States at least - all the laws are about copying data/files/assets not about using your mind.

Then you'd be able to draw and type out everything from scratch directly on your employer's PC and not have to download it via USB drives or email, like this guy did.

chii 3y ago
So if you obtained an idemic memory via installing a camera, flash drive and io ports into your brain? How or why is the mere transport method of information the distinction between infringement of IP vs not?
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago
  Probably because very few people have idetic memory to store 6GB of data in their brains with the utmost fidelity and unless you can also install a printer to your brain, it would take you a long time to reproduce 6GB of data by hand from your brain. Transport method it is because it means there's hard proof and a paper trail of the IP theft that you can prove in court. Memorizing something has no paper trail and also leads to a clean room deisgn. That's why companies want to hire people or entire teams, to do clean room deign, without any of the original data. If I go watch a movie and then tell people what I saw it's fine. If I record the movie with a camera and show it on screen that's the IP theft.

unethical_ban 3y ago

Then congratulations, you're able to ~~excel~~ exfil more data. We live in an imperfect world and solve problems as best we can.

anonymouskimmer 3y ago

Then copyright comes in to play. You should have been taught how to avoid plagiarism in school. Use those techniques to reimplement. These techniques involve more than just using synonyms and rephrasing.

themoonisachees 3y ago

Idemic or "photographic" memory as depicted in popular culture does not exist. most of the people who can remember a lot of information very quickly are actually on some level of deliberately using mnemotechnique methods, such as nursery ryhming (like that one released soldier in vietnam) or graph traversal. it's preposterous to assume that anyone could recite fragmented data such as source code simply by being exposed to it (ie not by purposefully memorizing it)

hobs 3y ago

Then it's fine in the United States at least - all the laws are about copying data/files/assets not about using your mind.