Encrypted Blog Copyrights?
By Daniel Miessler on March 13th, 2007: Tagged as Business | Copyright | Encryption | Legal | Technology
I wonder if there’s any precedent for using encryption and a multi-location cache as an alternative copyright method. The encryption is like the sealed envelope, and the fact that various, unrelated sources have copies with the same basic date serves as the timestamp.
So you get to court and say,
This was my idea. I published it on March 13th, 2007 and it was progated to the following list of sites. The owners of those sites are here and are willing to testify that the cache times to their sites have not been altered.
Actually, now that I think about it, that won’t matter at all. All someone has to say is that they were developing the idea concurrently. Oh well, it’s still a good way of proving you had an idea at some point in the past via the court of public opinion…