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6811.
by nullc 15y ago
Probably you don't understand where the line is because no one else is quite sure either. Most of the underlying information on Google Maps is public domain—road locations and physical features of the terrain are all uncopyrightable facts.
6812.
by nullc 15y ago
Maybe. http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/golan-v-holder/
6813.
by nullc 15y ago
And yet Wikipedia manages to do so without charging $19/article. :) Even for historic scanned books, e.g. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Blake,_a_crit... Likewise, archive.org does as well. I expect these papers will even
6814.
by nullc 15y ago
You appear to be advancing a sweat of the brow ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow ) theory of copyright— a view which is rejected by US law (the law in other places may be different). See Bridgeman v. Corel for an excellent e
6815.
by nullc 15y ago
FreeBSD MD5 is pretty strong— Its randomly salted and runs 1000 iterations of MD5. None of MD5's weaknesses are especially relevant in this context. The most important thing is the how slow it is, and it's likely that if they'd taken defau
6816.
by nullc 16y ago
I'm interested in knowing where you get this idea what H.265 won't be subject to patent royalties?
6817.
by nullc 16y ago
This isn't the case. See the HP and MPEG-LA testimony before the FTC. The pool agreement isn't exclusive. The members are free to license their patents through other venues, including cross licensing. In fact, one of the points MPEG-LA made
6818.
by nullc 16y ago
Whats the point of paying for MPEG-LA's license for AVC if doing so doesn't actually make the format legal to use? Both sides are saying (if not expressly then implied) that their licensing technique is believed to be enough, but they can't
6819.
by nullc 16y ago
FWIW, mono at32kbit/sec is fairly close to stereo at 64. (Of course, there is some joint coding gain from stereo— but stereo's wost case is just as bad as 2x mono and it's the often the worst cases that limit the quality). For example, mono
6820.
by nullc 16y ago
Exactly. CELT at 2.5kbit/sec: http://myrandomnode.dyndns.org:8080/~gmaxwell/celt/16k_60ms_... So sure, CELT can be coerced to run at obnoxiously low rates— it's far more flexible than MP3 in this regard, every frame size which is an inte