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Re:Copyrighting melodies to avoid accidental infringement [v... by kruasan on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @02:17PM (#22301621)
That hard drive is basically just a reduced music version of The Library of Babel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
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Re:Copyrighting melodies to avoid accidental infringement [v... by Dylan16807 on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @04:51PM (#22303305)
Sort of, but by making it a physical object it's proving that it's not just some intuition-breaking edge case caused by infinite numbers, it's in the realm of normal small human-scale numbers and maybe we need to rethink things when it's trivial to collide by accident.
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