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> "There is no difference at all between the original data and copies of it, they are exactly the same. In fact, there is no such thing as an "original" piece o
by blooalien 3y ago
> "There is no difference at all between the original data and copies of it, they are exactly the same. In fact, there is no such thing as an "original" piece of data, they are indistinguishable from one another."
Sometimes there is a difference. Sometimes the copy is better than the original (in that the copy frequently has had anti-consumer garbage like DRM removed).
- matheusmoreira 3y agoIn those cases they're not really copies though, they're new derived data. Someone took the official release and modified it into a better version. The source is not destroyed by this process, in fact people go out of their way to preserve it so that they can repeat the derivation process as many times as they want.