Intellectual property law as applied to binary information

Intellectual property law as applied to binary information

A general question on intellectual property, and how it relates to electronic media:

Let's say I buy a Disney movie on DVD, and I access the raw binary information of the video stream on the disc - one big long string of numbers, basically. Let's say I then go to a gathering of, say, 500 people, and start reading that long string of numbers out loud to everyone. Have I violated Disney's intellectual property? Or would this count as freedom of speech?


   
 
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