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and I can't quite put my finger on why...
Congress is now considering a bill that will make "... it a crime for anyone to copy and redistribute a substantial portion of data collected by commercial database companies and list publishers."
As someone who works with databases in my day job, I can understand why companies might want to keep ownership of the data they expend a lot of effort to both collect and analyze. However, I can also see that total ownership can cause problems to the general public. To use an example, I liked this article to Wired magazine. Would I be violating the law with that link?
Posted by Casper at March 4, 2004 03:19 PM