Re:disgruntled with these arguments (Score 2, Insightful)

I tend to agree with you, at least as respects machine/object code, but for different reasons. Machine code is code made by machines for machines. But the Constitution only authorizes Congress to protect the "writings" of "authors." I submit that the Framers never contemplated or intended that the concept of an author would encompass a machine or that something made by non-human hands and not readable by humans could constitute a "writing" within the meaning of the Constitution.