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Re:Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distributio... by 99127912 on Thursday July 21, 2016 @06:06AM (#12135835)
Indeed, we should. Comrade Page, comrade Brin, I'd like to have the Google software stack. IP rights are an outdated concept and the collective has decided that Google's stack belongs to the people.

Besides, everything is just bits! If you represent the whole monorepo as a single integer, denying people access to it would be akin to patenting a natural number!

Re:Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distributio... by malka on Thursday July 21, 2016 @06:49AM (#12135986)
There are indeeed illegal numbers
Re:Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distributio... by analognoise on Thursday July 21, 2016 @09:36AM (#12136724)
Yes, but only with context. The numbers by themselves are of course just numbers.
Re:Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distributio... by Shivetya on Thursday July 21, 2016 @06:53AM (#12136002)
you could say that from the actions that occur in France if not the EU that is how they view it across the ocean. Become the best search engine only to be told you cannot favor your own services, if that is not an indirect declaration you are now a public service I am not sure what would be
Re:Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distributio... by jobigoud on Thursday July 21, 2016 @08:17AM (#12136305)
It's not public service, it's regulation? You can do what you want as long as you conform to certain rules.

For example we have private electricity providers, but the prices are regulated and capped. Private companies can't just do whatever they want when it concerns things we consider to be people's fundamental resources.

Re:Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distributio... by 912831921 on Thursday July 21, 2016 @10:13AM (#12136959)
As always, the freeloaders are flagging the thread whenever too many pro-copyright comments appear.