- From: Bill de hÓra <dehora@eircom.net>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:44:58 +0100
- To: "'Tim Bray'" <tbray@textuality.com>, "'Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)'" <clbullar@ingr.com>
- Cc: "'Lucas Gonze'" <lgonze@panix.com>, <www-tag@w3.org>
> Tim Bray > > Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > > If a person breaks into your house and steals your jewelry, > > is it theft when they entered through an unlocked door? > > The analogy is more like someone has a pile of logs in a > front yard with > no fence and a sign pointing at them saying "Logs here" and nobody > hanging around. It's probably not theft if you walk away > with one. Arrgghh! These analogies don't make any sense on the web. By definition I can't steal resources using the web. All I can do is download representations. The idea that we can invoke trespass (not theft) laws on the retrieval of representations is not just asinine, it's corrupt, and predicated on a wrong headed model of how the web works, the very same one that gives rise to the phrase 'surfing the web'. This is to with a Legal Architecture which neither entails from, nor is justified by, the Technical Architecture. Tim Bray is right to raise the matter. regards, Bill de hÓra
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