alt Hacker NewsYes, but it is a social contract governing things that can't be easily copied.
We desperately need better social contracts which help us deal with data-about-me and data-i-created, but neither of those align very well with property.
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JumpCrisscross • today at 2:35 PM
> but it is a social contract governing things that can't be easily copied
I think it’s fair to argue this makes data something that should not be able to be owned. But saying it can’t be owned is plain wrong.
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I own paper money that is pretty easy to copy and worth far more than the paper it's on...