Re: [NTLK] Harry Potter and such

From: James Elliott (james.elliott_at_newted.org)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 15:10:34 PDT


No, I got what you meant. I was just filling in a couple details.

-James

>Interesting detail, but you're missing my point.
>
>If ROT13 is 'encryption' then so is a foreign language.
>Neither is intelligible without special knowledge and a transformation.
>This is classical information theory stuff.
>
>If I were to translate a book for payment or even read a book out loud
>for payment there are legal issues (think: Copyright as it applies to
>Talking Books).
>
>If I play a CD I own for other people, for example in the car while
>driving the kids to the beach, that is an allowable use. But if its in
>a language they don't understand and I translate ...

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