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Re:The End of ProTube 2 by dakom on Monday September 04, 2017 @08:12AM (#15167653)
> a user or program should be allowed to do anything they choose with the bits they receive. They can alter, modify, ignore, strip, or save any part of it.

If you sign a NDA with Coca-Cola, and they share their recipe with you via email, you're allowed to do "anything you choose" with it?

If you sign a partnership contract with Google, and they share their algorithms with you, you're allowed to do "anything you choose" with it?

Where's the line exactly of how far you can violate a contract simply because the property - intellectual and otherwise, can be represented as bits?

Re:The End of ProTube 2 by Retra on Monday September 04, 2017 @03:54PM (#15170487)
Obviously, when you're selling proprietary information. A service should have no right to enforce reinterpretation of the bits received any more than you have a right to enforce how people are to interpret the semantic content of your posts. (And in fact, I could easily go around selling my reinterpretation, and that only becomes a problem once you're arguing damages.)
Re:The End of ProTube 2 by dakom on Thursday September 07, 2017 @02:59AM (#15189658)
Yes, financial damages is what happens when you "reinterpret" bits against contractual agreements.