Owning facts (Re: List Archive (Was: Re: p2p, anonymity and security))

Travis Roy travis at scootz.net
Fri Mar 12 16:20:00 EST 2004


> Not that this has a lot to do with this innane thread, but this might
> not be true in a relatively short while.  For more information, look
> here:
> 
>         http://wired.com/news/business/0,1367,62500,00.html
>         http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=5021
> 
> I'm sure that there are plenty of *other* places (besides this list)
> where this topic could be discussed.

Please.. most of the discussions I saw about this totally show that it's 
crap. They can own a copyright on their database and charge for their 
access to that database. They don't "own" the fact, like people can't 
own my phone number, but they will be able to "own" a database of phone 
numbers.



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