[Gllug] Monolith - muddying the waters of the digital copyright debate

Andy Smith andy at lug.org.uk
Sat Sep 9 19:34:13 UTC 2006


On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 06:02:58PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> If you want to test the waters of "good" numbers vs "bad" numbers then
> you might want to gzip your data and convert it into a (large) binary
> number, then search by adding fuzz on the end until you hit the first
> interesting number -- eg. a prime.

Of course, all copyrighted work ever created or that ever will be
created exists somewhere as an offset and length in the digits of
pi, so every time we exchange two numbers we are dicing with piracy.

Cheers,
Andy
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