Comments on: Hi, Bob http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/06/17/hi-bob/ Just another geek in the geek kingdom Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:38:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: JustinOpinion http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/06/17/hi-bob/comment-page-1/#comment-8072 JustinOpinion Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:42:03 +0000 http://www.juliansanchez.com/?p=3289#comment-8072 I'm on the copyright-reformist side of that particular argument, but I don't see what's wrong with copyright maximalists invoking the one-way hash argument where appropriate. There are claims made by copyright reformists (or abolitionists) that are silly but can take time to defeat. Thus they qualify for "one-way hash" status. (E.g. claims like "It's just a particular bit-string! You can't make numbers illegal!" resonate with some members of the community.) I would agree that in the copyright debate, on the balance, the pro-copyright side makes these ridiculous over-reaching single-sentence arguments more often than the pro-reform side. But just because one side commits the fallacy more, on average, doesn't mean the other side doesn't commit it on occasion. And both sides should be free to point out the fallacies of the other camp (including occurrences of one-way hash arguments). I’m on the copyright-reformist side of that particular argument, but I don’t see what’s wrong with copyright maximalists invoking the one-way hash argument where appropriate.

There are claims made by copyright reformists (or abolitionists) that are silly but can take time to defeat. Thus they qualify for “one-way hash” status. (E.g. claims like “It’s just a particular bit-string! You can’t make numbers illegal!” resonate with some members of the community.)

I would agree that in the copyright debate, on the balance, the pro-copyright side makes these ridiculous over-reaching single-sentence arguments more often than the pro-reform side. But just because one side commits the fallacy more, on average, doesn’t mean the other side doesn’t commit it on occasion. And both sides should be free to point out the fallacies of the other camp (including occurrences of one-way hash arguments).

]]> By: Doug http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/06/17/hi-bob/comment-page-1/#comment-8057 Doug Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:21:22 +0000 http://www.juliansanchez.com/?p=3289#comment-8057 Still, that was a smart observation and I can think of worse things than to have the "one-way hash" argument become Sanchez' Law. What's kind of funny to me is that Sanchez' Law is what new media is made of. What portion of blog posts are lengthy disassemblages of one assertion in someone else's lengthy rebuttal to a previous glibness? Still, that was a smart observation and I can think of worse things than to have the “one-way hash” argument become Sanchez’ Law.

What’s kind of funny to me is that Sanchez’ Law is what new media is made of. What portion of blog posts are lengthy disassemblages of one assertion in someone else’s lengthy rebuttal to a previous glibness?

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