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If Google has the copyright on "1", they only need to get "0" as well and they'll have everything.
by onion2k 5y ago
If Google has the copyright on "1", they only need to get "0" as well and they'll have everything.
- gvb 5y ago0 = 1 - 1 so they have everything already!
- smnrchrds 5y agoOnly if they have patented -
- wlesieutre 5y agoNot - as an abstract concept, but perhaps "a method and apparatus for subtracting numbers"
- tragomaskhalos 5y agoThere must be some internet law that states something like "no flippant comment about the absurdities of copyright law is so crazy that a patent troll won't be inspired by it"
- version_five 5y agoOr XOR
- gvb 5y agoPoint of order: you've changed the method of restriction from copyright to patent.
- bluecheese33 5y agohttps://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-08-29 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-08-29
- misnome 5y agoAll copyright-infringing files are ~50% 1's, therefore there is a 50% chance of every file with a 1 in being copyright-infringing! Statistics don't lie, which is presumably why google employs so many of them, to calculate these efficiencies.
- denton-scratch 5y ago> Statistics don't lie However statistics can be used to confuse. If a file is 50% 1's, then a 1-digit file has a 50% chance of infringing. More than that, the chance of infringement grows pretty fast. Also, if "1" is copyright, then a file with a "1" in it is infringing; there's no chance there. It's certainty.
- vmception 5y agoHere is a joke that relies on the assumption that the platform is suggesting they own the copyright, instead of someone else that isn't the user.
- tyingq 5y agoAlready there, I made some test files. The ones with "1", "1\n", and "0\n" are all now flagged. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30063319 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30063319 So, "someone" has them copyrighted.
- kingcharles 5y agoGod, I'm glad I stored all my files using quantum superpositions.