software piracy
software piracy
Out of context: Reply #24
- Started
- Last post
- 38 Responses
- mitsu0
"nothing worng with property, but software is just a series of 1s and 0s burned onto a disk, if you copy a sequence of 1s and 0s from one round piece of plastic onto another, does that make you a criminal?"
ha! i can beat that:
take an mp3... an already inferior version of the original that was made that way by cutting out unneeded frequencies leaving the solid 'meat'. this is already far from the original binary pattern. now what if we cut off the last 3 seconds of the song... it would take the best pattern recognition algorithm in the world to match the new version to the original.
all that to say, it's really difficult to copyright 1's and 0's but some companies (particularly the RIAA) don't seem to think so.