Hyperlink = P2P (Score 1)

Code is not content. Particularly not in the case of HTML code or any code presented to the WWW. The web is a forum for delivering content. The way to provide that content is through open standards using code that is interpereted by browsing software built to those standards. Unlike closed-source code used in commercial software, the compiling of that code is done on the end-user's workstation. When a content provider provides me with content they do so by allowing me to download the code and the encoded content. I - by token of my chosen browser - then compile that code and view it. But the code has been given to me - not the product of it. I produce the content on my workstation. Effectively, the content provider has given me the manuscript and I've plated it on my printing press and produced a volume. A company claiming that the code is protected intellectual property may have a point in that if I were to copy and republish the code I would be plagiarizing them, however to object to the viewing of that code is incorrect because it is that very code they are giving to me under the supposition that I will compile it for viewing. If I were to follow my printing press analogy it would be fair to say that the demand not to view HTML code would be like handing me a book and expecting me never to acknowledge the formatting - the fact that a paragraph ends, the chapterization, the fact that a superscript number corresponds to a footnote much the way a hyperling references another web page. If I were to take this argument to it's logical conclusion I would argue that under these circumstances providing me a hyperlink to a page from another content provider is either 1) plagiarism because duplication of the target page's content is implied by the presence of the link; or 2) piracy because the source page's provider is publishing the target provider's intellectual property by giving you a tool to access it. If HTML code is intellectual property then it only stands to reason that should be stricken from the standard because it represents a tool for illegal P2P file sharing.