New ways to evade copyright law (was Re: Vicarious liblity (was: KDE not in Debian?))

[Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>]

Apparently, some people think that the introduction of some new
distribution mechanism will confuse the people who enforce copyright
law think that distribution isn't happening.

So, let's say that I come up with a new way of distributing text:

I'll send all the vowels in one file (it will be downloaded from the
web), I'll send all the consonants in a set of different files (one per
consonant -- they will be emailed), and I'll send the punctuation in a
third file (it will be posted as news).

And, let's say that I include enough meta-information in these files
such that they will just happen to combine themselves to create the
original text.  No one file, taken individually, could be mistaken for
a copyrighted work -- only by taking the files as a group which would be
pieced together by individual effort could I be said to be distributing
a copyrighted work.

Do people think that would be legal?

If not, why not?

-- 
Raul