Apparently, some people think that the introduction of some new distribution mechanism will confuse the people who enforce copyright law think that distribution isn't happening.
So, let's say that I come up with a new way of distributing text: I'll send all the vowels in one file (it will be downloaded from the web), I'll send all the consonants in a set of different files (one per consonant -- they will be emailed), and I'll send the punctuation in a third file (it will be posted as news). And, let's say that I include enough meta-information in these files such that they will just happen to combine themselves to create the original text. No one file, taken individually, could be mistaken for a copyrighted work -- only by taking the files as a group which would be pieced together by individual effort could I be said to be distributing a copyrighted work. Do people think that would be legal? If not, why not? -- Raul
