OFF

I will get back to semantic mediawiki soon, but I wanted to post something about OFF. It’s obvious that copyright law is a little behind technology, but I think this is a pretty big leap into making it completely unrelated.

In other words there is not a one to one mapping between a stored block and its use in a retrieved file. Each stored block is simultaneously used as a part of many different files. Individually, however, each block is nothing but arbitrary digital white noise.

How does copyright law deal with that? In a very real way the data doesn’t exist in any coherent copy-writable fashion before it’s assembled. The law hasn’t even caught up with the current technology, and we’re steaming ahead, faster and faster…