{"id":143,"date":"2008-12-12T22:10:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T21:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2008-12-12T22:10:37","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T21:10:37","slug":"colored-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"Colored bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intellectual property has been a growing topic in the IT industry for a long time. But it&#8217;s long been considered &#8220;not a computer science problem&#8221; but instead &#8220;a legal problem.&#8221; The truth is that it&#8217;s both.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, trying to explain the reality of how bits work in a way lawyers understand or how intellectual property works in a way computer scientists understand has been an extremely difficult problem.<\/p>\n<p>Until now.<\/p>\n<p>My friend Christophe pointed me to an <a href=\"http:\/\/ansuz.sooke.bc.ca\/lawpoli\/colour\/2004061001.php\" target=\"_blank\">amazing article<\/a> on the subject by Matthew Skala. The article invents a new term, which he borrows from a very <em>1984<\/em>-like (the book, not the year) video-game, introduces it in an extremely-accessible (for non-computer scientists and non-lawyers alike) way which I think gives a lot of value and incredible insight into both sides of this <strong>increasingly important and pervasive<\/strong> issue. It&#8217;s a bit long, but I highly recommend reading it (half the page is comments, so don&#8217;t be scared away by the length of the page).<\/p>\n<p>For those of you &#8220;hard computer scientists&#8221; who are thinking this is crap and don&#8217;t plan on reading it, maybe this will entice you: at the end he makes the argument the logic applied by DRM lawyers is the same one applied by cryptographers when discussing entropy. Non-CS folks, don&#8217;t worry, most of the article does not require understanding of such concepts.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/ansuz.sooke.bc.ca\/lawpoli\/colour\/2004061001.php\" target=\"_blank\">go read it<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intellectual property has been a growing topic in the IT industry for a long time. But it&#8217;s long been considered &#8220;not a computer science problem&#8221; but instead &#8220;a legal problem.&#8221; The truth is that it&#8217;s both. Moreover, trying to explain the reality of how bits work in a way lawyers understand or how intellectual property [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}