05-30-2015, 09:08 PM
(05-30-2015, 09:05 PM)SilverOtter Wrote:>"not use ram"(05-30-2015, 08:45 PM)Ryuujin Wrote: Stuff like this sits in a weird legal limbo. It's entirely possible to make music, or an image file, or an algorithm that in digital form, shares binary values with another program, music, data file executable possibly by accident.
And it creates bit of a legal mess, because when you make digital data what you're making and placing copyrights on is the binary raw data, because that file can be loaded up and used any number of ways, not just as an executable, picture or whatever. If the WAY in which it was used what mattered then you could legally copy stuff so long as you claim you only intended to use it in a different way. So when you end up with 2 seperate things, that come out with identical sections of binary, it's plausible for one of the creators to sue you for infringing their copyrights.
In the early days of the internet in the USA, when the courts realized that computers often had to copy copyrighted data (copying it from the hard disk into random access memory) they asked that computers not have RAM so that they wouldn't have to copy data. Only recently has someone even prototyped a computer that doesn't use RAM.