Boss: can you compile for me today's important news from the paper? Secretary: right away. [takes out scissors and cuts out only the relevant parts] Boss: gre

Boss: can you compile for me today's important news from the paper? Secretary: right away. [takes out scissors and cuts out only the relevant parts] Boss: great! s/Boss/user/, s/Secretary/Software/ Once a byte stream of information comes under the control of another user, what they do in their own time and privacy is entirely up to them. It may even be illegal, but it is outside of your control. We can do this whole "immoral vs moral" and "gentleman's agreement thing." But depending on how gentlemanly you want to be, you can make the tacit agreements infinitely complicated, inefficient, and uneconomical. Example: reading on a small-screen device. Another example: ads on train.