Recent Features
| |||||||||||||
The JPEG patentThe JPEG patentPosted May 1, 2004 17:25 UTC (Sat) by piman (subscriber, #8957)In reply to: The JPEG patent by icculus_98 Parent article: The JPEG patent
And now you reach the fundamental fiction of intellectual property law today: Despite the fact that everything on a computer is only a stream of bits (some of which describe how to transform other streams of bit), we treat some of these bit streams differently than others. In some cases, the same bit stream gets treated differently whether you call it a "picture" or a "sound" or an "executable." "So the legal system we have - blessed as we are by its consequences if we are copyright teachers, Congressmen, Gucci-gulchers or Big Rupert himself - is compelled to treat indistinguishable things in unlike ways." -- Eben Moglen
(Log in to post comments)
|
|||||||||||||