> > I'll agree that you're not seeing the raw bits, but nobody ever sees > > the raw bits. Instead, you see things resulting from those bits.
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:51:13AM +0200, Måns Rullgård wrote: > You just defeated yourself. Nobody has ever tried to extend the > copyright of a program to include output produced when running the > program. Why would this be different when the program sends its > output over a network? This is kinda like: Don't be silly. If there were a $10 bill on the street, someone would have already picked it up. However, I'll agree that copyright law doesn't fit very well into the realm of computer programs and machine-machine communications. That's not what it was designed to for. -- Raul
