Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 16:10:41 12/22/97
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On December 22, 1997 at 17:45:19, Chris Whittington wrote: >But the software is a different case, no? Decade 2 has already >transferred the property. It's there in its bits and bytes already. Its >then just a case of accessing the bits and bytes, decade 2 has a >mechanism for this, this mechanism got reported. > >Seems different to me. It is different, sure. Actually it is very interesting. There are a few issues. First, what was on the site had a bug, it was exposing functionality that Ed didn't want exposed. By publishing instructions about how to access this functionality, people could get more than Ed obviously wanted them to get. Yeah, sure you can download this thing and get at the additional functionality without hacking the exe bytes. But there are still ethical issues here. Additionally, the software was still available for download from Ed's site, and we have what amounts to an exhortation to go get the thing if you haven't already gotten it. This is another issue. Finally, "journalism" is the reason this was reported at all, which casts the above in a new light. If some random person did the above it might be different than if someone did it because they felt compelled to professionally. Last night I wrote a post in "alt.journalism", called "Simple ethics issue", asking for help with this. I'm sure my questions was loaded, since my own opinions on the subject come through, but it might be worth seeing what the journalism people come up with. So far there have been two responses, both suggesting a law suit. bruce
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