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Re:Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Address Confere... by inetknght on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @02:41PM (#20518265)
Care to run down that rabbit hole? I happen to think copyright is a concept which is intrinsically broken with the advent of modern computing power and connectivity.
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Re:Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Address Confere... by thomastjeffery on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @10:04PM (#20521995)
While I happen to agree with you, I think it's important to distinguish the two:

What A.G. Barr is insinuating is to regulate algorithms.

Copyright is regulation of implementations.

For example, GPG is a software implementation of encryption algorithms. It has a copyright (used as the basis for its copyleft license). RSA, however, is an algorithm: a mathematical reality that can be described by copyrighted works, but never itself copyrighted.

A.G. Barr has expressed a desire to compel every American who implements that algorithm to do so incorrectly.

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