On 15 Mar 2006 00:11:11 -0500, Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > File permissions have little or nothing to do with enforcing copyright. > > > > File permissions are an all or nothing mechanism. You either have > > given a person a copy of the copyrighted material, or you have not. > > Things like the execute bit, not to mention ACLs like those supported > in AFS, NTFS, and other systems, make this claim transparently false.
So don't do that. > File permissions control more forms of access than just who can copy a > work -- but even the read bit taken in isolation is a mechanism that > effectively controls access to a work. The mere existence of file permissions are not the problem here. Giving someone a copy of a work and arranging file permissions so they can't read that work is bad, but nothing requires you do that. -- Raul