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Re:Illegal prime by jodrellblank on Monday January 11, 2010 @01:01PM (#1045565)
"One could translate any string of text into a series of bits and back to a single number and say that a book or a picture is just a number. Then one could say that noone invented that number, and that it's just a number, so you couldn't have copyright nor protection because everything could be randomly generated"

You could be on to something big there, maybe a new kind of science, even.

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Re:Illegal prime by wmf on Monday January 11, 2010 @03:22PM (#1045909)
Except in NKOS-land, Wolfram has copyright on all the numbers that you might possibly ever generate...
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Re:Illegal prime by jacquesm on Monday January 11, 2010 @10:34PM (#1046773)
And of course any numbers that can be derived from numbers that you might generate.

I think Wolfram should get it over with and simply copyright { Z }, that would at least make it clear where we stand on this.

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Re:Illegal prime by jacquesm on Monday January 11, 2010 @01:28PM (#1045622)
On behalf of Stephen Wolfram, "Ouch".
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