> > hi all.
> >
> > did you see this on /. today? OFFSystem. here's a link to
> their wiki:
> >
http://wiki.offdev.org/Main_Page>
> The page says that
>
> > ...no data stored or transferred in OFF is copyrighted
> because all data is random. A simple analogy is seen in that
> every number has an infinite number of representations
> (3+2=5, 2*2+1=5, 10-5=5, 10/2=5, etc). Even if the number
> (file) in question can be copyrighted under current
> legislation, it is practically impossible and unreasonable to
> state that every other representation of that particular
> number is copyrighted.
>
> Such a claim won't stand up in court for thirty seconds, for
> the reasons given in the following essay on Paranoia (the
> RPG), computer science, and the law:
>
>
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/colour/2004061001.phphi,
the part from offsystem that caught my eye was the reusable parts in a
data store. hadn't seen that before.
i loved your link and read the whole thing! quote:
"Conscientious cryptographers refuse to use the term "random numbers".
They'll persistently and annoyingly correct you to say "randomly
generated numbers" instead, because it's not the numbers that are or are
not random, it's the source of the numbers that is or is not random."
- eric c.
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