> The court found the contracts aren't property because no one can control or change the application's code any longer. In fact, the creators took pains to make sure of that.<p>Hmmm... Hunting for analogies, perhaps it's like an event where people arrive at the park, everybody puts a fixed $20 in their own opaque anonymous box, and everyone blindly shuffles boxes before leaving with (probably) someone else's box, thus cross-shuffling their money/coins.<p>Sure, the $20 before and after is property, but the <i>event itself</i> isn't really own-able in the same way.