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As far as the law goes, there should always be disclaimers that metaphors and analogies are sometimes useful but only get you so far. Especially when it comes
by MWil 13y ago
As far as the law goes, there should always be disclaimers that metaphors and analogies are sometimes useful but only get you so far. Especially when it comes to technology, they almost never hold water and look silly years down the line when the technology is better understood by the general population. I don't have the necessary education or knowledge to make a better analogy so for that I apologize.
EDIT: Oh, I am a lawyer. I was just noting that in law school (and internet law especially) you have to be wary of judges/parties using analogies in their arguments b/c they are almost always imperfect in one way or another
- dalke 13y agoHave you skimmed through the PDF? I've found that even though I don't have any legal training, it's usually pretty easy to read at least the transcripts. Do that a few times, and things start to make some sense. I've found court judgements are often quite easy to understand, if you don't mind skipping a lot of citation references. For example, Computer Associates v. Altai helped me understand the abstraction-filtration-comparison test as applied to copyright of software.
- MWil 13y agosee my edit above, I did more than just skim, I did a pretty thorough initial reading as you can see from my comments here
- dalke 13y agoIndeed you have! I find it difficult to track account names, especially unfamiliar ones, and didn't note that I had even commented elsewhere on your threads of doing that reading. (For example, it wasn't until 7th grade that I noticed that various books that I really liked were all written by the same author, so I should get more books by that author.)
- malandrew 13y agoIt would be interesting, if, when replying, other comments by the person on the same HN post were available.