While The Creative Works From The 16th Century Can Still Be Accessed And Used By Others, The Data In Some Software Programs From The 1990s Is Already Inaccessible. Once A Company That Produces A Certain Product Goes Out Of Business, It Has No Simple Way To Uncover How Its Product Encoded Data. The Code Is Thus Lost, And The Software Is Inaccessible. Knowledge Has Been Destroyed.

-Lawrence Lessig

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While The Creative Works From The 16th

Lawrence Lessig

While The Creative Works From The 16th Century Can Still Be Accessed And Used By Others, The Data In Some Software Programs From The 1990s Is Already Inaccessible. Once A Company That Produces A Certain Product Goes Out Of Business, It Has No Simple Way To Uncover How Its Product Encoded Data. The Code Is Thus Lost, And The Software Is Inaccessible. Knowledge Has Been Destroyed.

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The More Important Point, However, Is Not About What The Money Does. It's About What Has To Be Done To Get The Money. The Effect Of The Money Might Be (democratically) Benign. But What Is Done To Secure That Money Is Not Necessarily Benign. To Miss This Point Is To Betray The Robin Hood Fallacy: The Fact That The Loot Was Distributed Justly Doesn't Excuse The Means Taken To Secure It.

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