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Re:Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to pre... by LMYahooTFY on Friday February 28, 2020 @10:46AM (#22443510)
This is a complete non sequitur.

Your example is barely plausible, much less demonstrable.

The connection between "original works" using an extremely limited set of notes, and your right to privacy using some theoretical predictive algorithm is not at all obvious.

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Re:Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to pre... by goto11 on Friday February 28, 2020 @11:06AM (#22443691)
I agree. I wanted to point out the absurdity of the argument used in the article. The argument is that music is just numbers and numbers are not copyrightable. But any kind of information is "just numbers" which can be enumerated given enough time.
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