Very much agree, people make a leap of logic from the idea that data can be easily copied to treating data as being ethereal. The reality is that it still has to be encoded on some physical medium somewhere. Both ownership of the medium and the data encoded on it should be in the hands of the customer.
Very much agree, people make a leap of logic from the idea that data can be easily copied to treating data as being ethereal. The reality is that it still has to be encoded on some physical medium somewhere. Both ownership of the medium and the data encoded on it should be in the hands of the customer.
Further, the hardware and software needed to “read” the data should be open and accessible to the public, if they want to build their own reader.
Absolutely, and this is precisely why open standards for hardware and software are of fundamental importance.