Hey,

Just an interesting concept i thought about the other day.

With (most) software, there is a copyright companies place on the content of the CD, floppy disk etc. However what is actually on the CD? Isn't it compiled code? Binary numbers? 1's and 0's? So, the data on the CD is actually a number like "0100101011010101001011001..... etc". If the data is just a concatination of other numbers, it makes one long number, right? So really, a company is paintenting (sorry about the spelling) a number. So in realitity it is like someone trying to copyright "pi" (3.1415...). If that was the case, everyone that uses "pi" would have to pay a fee and agree to the terms and conditions of using "pi". It is just rediculous the concept of copyrighting a number, however in reality of the software world it is just that.

I thought this was an interesting concept, what do you think? (feel free to expand on this subject)

Thanks,