At 5:46 PM 5/27/96, Chris Adams wrote:

On 27 May 1996 11:25:28 pdt, m5@vail.tivoli.com wrote:

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What if I just *see* your couch, and then back in my garage I use my couch replicator to make a couch just like yours, complete with fuzzballs and loose change between the cushions? Now I have your couch, in a sense. Are you still upset?

When I walked off with your blood chemistry data, did you lose the use of it for your future purposes?

I believe that you are free to keep information, use it, etc. but you MUST get permission before selling it.

This opinion summarizes what's wrong with the world today. Facts are facts. Statements about reality. If I happen across a piece of information, such as "Chris Adams is subscribed to the Cypherpunks list," I need not get permission from Chris Adams to sell this fact to another. (Unless of course I have a contractual relationship with Chris involving this in some way.) Not even in these Beknighted States, unless the laws have recently gotten much worse that they were a short while ago. --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."