Jack Straw' View

[Brian Gladman]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roland Perry" <roland@linx.net>
To: <ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk>
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: Jack Straw' View


> In article <005501bfe2ee$b2caeb40$6cf186d4@owenras>, Owen Blacker
> <owenfb@easynet.co.uk> writes
> >theft of something as fthereal as data (be it an
> >encryption key or otherwise) is surely still theft.
>
> I don't think theft of information is a concept we have yet. But IANAL
> etc.

I discussed the concept of information ownership with Nicholas Bohm
(privately) a couple of months ago and it does seem that this is not a
concept that is recognised in law.

But what the law says cannot deny the correctness of concepts in other
contexts (the law can say pi = 3 but this does not make it so for
mathematicians).

I certainly support the concept of information ownership (and hence
information theft) in a number of contexts.

    Brian