From: Bruce Baugh <bruce@aracnet.com>
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 08:59:33 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Philosophy of information ownership
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At 12:29 AM 5/28/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:

>Contracts are the key.

Agreed. The more that can be explicitly spelled out about these matters, the
better.

A separate problem arises when the government compels the disclosure of
information for one purpose - getting a driver's license, say - and then
turns around and sells it to others. It's much harder to either negotiate a
new contract or go to a competitor when the other party is a government.

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Bruce Baugh
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