On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:10:44AM -0600, Gametech <voltronalpha at hotmail.com> wrote: > Technically your memory is infringing thousands of copyrights.... It's such > a joke. No, because you're not sharing it with anyone else. > Copyright, IP, Patents restrict the rights of the 'whole' for the increase > of rights for the entity (often a corporation). > So I better not take a picture of my room cause there is almost certainly > 100's of copyright infringements bound to happen... > That's what fair use is supposed to be about, telling my computer to record > my memories would in no way violate fair use. > As reverse engineering a drug to save lives is also fair use, some things > are more fundamental than others even if they aren't legal. Reverse engineering does not come under fair use -- they are both legal terms with specific definitions. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp