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To copy any thing requires
Copying any thing implies storage and maintainence of both parent and child instances.
Copying a resource requires tools, energy, time, transportation, storage media, space.
Some resources are so abundant and easily copied that real costs are erroneously ignored.
Even the most seemingly favorable condition of a gifting plant covering the neighborhoods is soon a problem if they become a weed because of hoarding space from the variety of others...
Some finite resources can not be copied.
Replication may be lossy, or lossless, or mixing.
1. Lossy:
Recording music during an artist's presentation is lossy because there are so many unrecorded data points, and even those 'recorded' data are actually just sampling.
Copying from an analog recording.
Copying from a digital recording to an analog.
Compressing or recompressing with a 'lossy' codec.
2. Lossless:
Copying from a digital recording to a digital.
Asexual organisms and self-fertilizing sexual organisms reproduce in a lossless way.
3. Mixing:
Sexual organisms reproduce in a mixing way - where quantity of overall information remains constant, but the output is a mixture of the inputs... so maybe the quality is lossy (though sometimes an improvement...), while the quantity (of genetics) is lossless.
Wage is paid for work to copy a seed (fresh harvest).
Usury is paid when the means to copy are held scarce.
CopyCamp.ca >>An unconference for artists about the Internet and the challenge to copyright
Related: left, right
To copy any thing requires
Copying any thing implies storage and maintainence of both parent and child instances.
Copying a resource requires tools, energy, time, transportation, storage media, space.
Some resources are so abundant and easily copied that real costs are erroneously ignored.
Even the most seemingly favorable condition of a gifting plant covering the neighborhoods is soon a problem if they become a weed because of hoarding space from the variety of others...
Some finite resources can not be copied.
Replication may be lossy, or lossless, or mixing.
1. Lossy:
Recording music during an artist's presentation is lossy because there are so many unrecorded data points, and even those 'recorded' data are actually just sampling.
Copying from an analog recording.
Copying from a digital recording to an analog.
Compressing or recompressing with a 'lossy' codec.
2. Lossless:
Copying from a digital recording to a digital.
Asexual organisms and self-fertilizing sexual organisms reproduce in a lossless way.
3. Mixing:
Sexual organisms reproduce in a mixing way - where quantity of overall information remains constant, but the output is a mixture of the inputs... so maybe the quality is lossy (though sometimes an improvement...), while the quantity (of genetics) is lossless.
Wage is paid for work to copy a seed (fresh harvest).
Usury is paid when the means to copy are held scarce.
CopyCamp.ca >>An unconference for artists about the Internet and the challenge to copyright