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Well copyright is, when it comes down to it, not very logical. In the digital world every picture, video, audio or other copyrighted material is represented as
by chme 6y ago
Well copyright is, when it comes down to it, not very logical.
In the digital world every picture, video, audio or other copyrighted material is represented as a number, which can pretty much be any number, if the encoding can be freely chosen.
Transferring and storing those numbers (looking at you π) could be a copyright violation or not, pretty much just depending on the intent.
Because proving intent is very difficult, the rules seem to have changed here a bit, so now the defendant would have to prove that they didn't intent to do so... Which might be even more difficult, but who with money and influence cares about that.
- xtracto 6y agoExactly... that was demonstrated with DeCSS and AACS a long time ago, with shirts printed with colors "encoding" the magic number and whatnot. I would love for someone to actually code this in the "rockstar" language. With sufficient "base" conversions, you could make any program be represented by the constitution.
- colejohnson66 6y agoSpeaking of DeCSS: it’s available in haiku form: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS_haiku https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS_haiku
- philipov 6y agoI had one of those shirts.
- kobalsky 6y agoWe could distribute pirated movies with pi. Just publish the digit offset from where to start and how many digits to calculate. The offset would probably be an infintely huge number, but I wonder if they could technically DMCA you for hosting it.
- chme 6y agoOf course they could.