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Cabbage wrote:

Guessmyname wrote:What is this number supposed to do anyway...

HD-DVD encryption..

And no, numbers CANNOT be copyrighted, which is why after the 486, (and lots of reversed engineered rival products with the same name), intel decided to call it's next processor the pentium..

they can, but they cant make it a trademark afaik

We're not lawyers, let's not debate over the finer points of intellectual property law.

Cabbage wrote:And no, numbers CANNOT be copyrighted, which is why after the 486, (and lots of reversed engineered rival products with the same name), intel decided to call it's next processor the pentium..

What you describe is a trademark. Of course numbers can be copyrighted. An MP3 can be represented as a string of bits. That is a number. The contents of the MP3 is copyrighted. Therefore the number representing the contents of the MP3 is copyrighted.

errr i meant trademark! yeah!..




bastids!

BlackLiger wrote:really? Mine's 12345

That's the dumbest password I've ever heard!

Boirunner wrote:

Cabbage wrote:And no, numbers CANNOT be copyrighted, which is why after the 486, (and lots of reversed engineered rival products with the same name), intel decided to call it's next processor the pentium..

What you describe is a trademark. Of course numbers can be copyrighted. An MP3 can be represented as a string of bits. That is a number. The contents of the MP3 is copyrighted. Therefore the number representing the contents of the MP3 is copyrighted.

No, the stuff the number represents (in the case of an MP3 a song) is copyrighted, not the number itself. Copyright applies to creative works, the number is the output of an algorithm which is not creative. This also means that encoding the same song into a different number will still be covered by the same copyright and encoding something else into the same number (e.g. an image file that happens to end up looking the same on the disc) is a separate copyright.

OH SNAP

http://digg.com/hardware/The_Number_Has ... wer_Titles

KDR_11k wrote:

Boirunner wrote:

Cabbage wrote:And no, numbers CANNOT be copyrighted, which is why after the 486, (and lots of reversed engineered rival products with the same name), intel decided to call it's next processor the pentium..

What you describe is a trademark. Of course numbers can be copyrighted. An MP3 can be represented as a string of bits. That is a number. The contents of the MP3 is copyrighted. Therefore the number representing the contents of the MP3 is copyrighted.

No, the stuff the number represents (in the case of an MP3 a song) is copyrighted, not the number itself. Copyright applies to creative works, the number is the output of an algorithm which is not creative. This also means that encoding the same song into a different number will still be covered by the same copyright and encoding something else into the same number (e.g. an image file that happens to end up looking the same on the disc) is a separate copyright.

Well yes. The music is copyrighted, and therefore you may not freely copy a number that can be used to represent the music in the context that it can do that. It's the exact same thing here: You may not distribute the number in the context that it can be used to decode DVDs.

In either cases, the number itself without the context is worthless and meaningless, and can be copied freely. Nobody will make it illegal for your calculator to express that number

Hay guys, I hear pluto is 99206706771272430000mm away from the sun lawl.

Surely they mean 4 8 15 16 23 42 ?

Number no longer works? Who cares, they just broke the whole scheme!

Well, since its now spread that far, it can be claimed to be reverse engineered, in which case, if I remember correctly, any copyright or trademark is defunct, if they didn't patent the encryption system.

Ishach wrote:check it out if you write your forums password in a post it comes up as stars

*********

******** :O

PinkPonies

EDIT: WTF IT DOES NOT!!!!!

That is smoth's password!

CompWiz wrote:PinkPonies

HOW DID YOU KNOW!?!?!

back ontopic:

I HEREBY OWN THE NUMBVER 1 AND ANYONE USING IT HAS TO PAY ME 1 DOLLARS PER USE!!!!

Zpock wrote:I HEREBY OWN THE NUMBVER 1 AND ANYONE USING IT HAS TO PAY ME 1 DOLLARS PER USE!!!!

CURSES!

Guess we'll just have to use 0.999... instead.