It will get built in to some browser, at some point. It's inevitable. They will freak out. Pull up a chair and let's watch it happen. (The MPAA will complain about how TOR is responsible for all piracy, except when it's Google's fault; and this clearly hurts corn farmers, so, I reluctantly add...) Grab a popcorn.
Qentis needs to make all of their 'creative' 'output' available via the web. It's not that anyone will read / view / hear it. It's just that anybody can read / view / hear it.
It needs to be plausible that any big content, big copyright maximalist people could have possibly seen / heard / read Qentis's 'valuable' work and then copied it.
I think they might have found a way to cut down on the space of outputs to create.
Obviously, every possible 256 x 256 pixel image is not interesting. But many of them are.
They might have a machine learning algorithm trained to recognize noise and non-noise. Non-noise images get further sub variations created.
From the non-noise, you could use trained recognizers to classify images. Images containing certain objects (say people, animals, plants, etc) could have more variations produced.
As another example, take a set of types of things (cars, dogs, etc) that might appear in a photograph, and create ways of generating simple representations of those. On a larger scale combine various combinations of types of elements into composite images.
For sounds, generate random chord sequences according to some basic rules. Over any given set of chords, generate every possible melody as any note from first chord, followed by any note from second chord, etc. Use rules to discard obvious junk. Use machine learning to identify things that are appealing based on the training set.
All they need is to 'create' something similar enough to an artist in order to shake them down.
I agree with you. But I think $150,000 per bogus takedown would be a good start.
Furthermore, they don't just use copyright as a means to profit, they use it: * as an anti-competitive weapon against anyone who might create anything interesting * as a means to keep artists enslaved * as a means to control artists (if you don't do what I say, pretty thing, you won't be cutting any new records)
I propose another important use of your valuable technology.
Generate every possible patent. A patent application doesn't have to make sense. It just needs to be in a particular form with obscure terminology, impenetrable language and very simple vector drawings.
Please don't generate patent applications faster than the USPTO can accept them. Just make sure that the USPTO is unable to process any other patent applications.
As a side effort you could form a betting pool on how many of your generated patent applications will be granted.
You only have to register a copyright in order to sue. Ideally you should register as soon as you discover someone is infringing on the output of your random number generators.
I think something like $150,000 as a statutory fine for a bogus takedown is completely reasonable. Based on the same argument for the ridiculous statutory copyright penalty.
One single instance of {piracy | bogus takedown} can do huge economic damage and result in the loss of large numbers of sales.
Judge Kathleen Williams ordered Warner to release certain information within ten days of Thursday’s ruling, and to propose a schedule for releasing the rest.
Within ten days Warner will propose a schedule something like:
Warner is diligently working to release its proprietary process* for sending bogus DMCA takedowns. Warner anticipates that it will be able to produce one step of the process each one quarter of a galactic turn.
Warner respectfully asks the court to keep the process under seal so that others cannot use it against us. It would be very disruptive of our business if others could send Warner bogus DMCA takedowns that had the force of law.
* Warner's proprietary process for sending bogus DMCA takedowns has been licensed to four other major studios, and the license agreement requires non-disclosure of the process used.
Joseph Goebbels said: If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.
So that explains why CNN keeps repeating the same stories over and over and over. In Wolf Blitzer's monotone voice grating on and on.
I quit watching a year and some months ago and, strangely, I don't feel any less informed. The things that did it for me was how they didn't cover SOPA and how they did cover Snowden.
> Orwell's essay 'Politics and the English Language' should be a must read in high school
This is a bad idea for two reasons: 0. It unfairly would require all high school students to have the ability to read. 1. It would unduly distract students from sports 2. It makes students less useful worker bees for future exploitation by corporate overlords.
The city council should be absolutely ashamed of themselves for such a stupid waste.
Wouldn't it be much more efficient to simply install cameras into every NJ home to allow continuous central remote monitoring for underage drinkers?
Think of the manpower that would be saved. The equipment cost is a one time capital investment. For the good of all. The equipment maintenance is cheaper than the manpower to manually search all homes.
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The public would be furious to see what an obscene amount they paid. $500,000 for an Amiga? No problem!
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We don't have to imagine
It's inevitable.
They will freak out.
Pull up a chair and let's watch it happen.
(The MPAA will complain about how TOR is responsible for all piracy, except when it's Google's fault; and this clearly hurts corn farmers, so, I reluctantly add...)
Grab a popcorn.
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Re: Re: Re: That's not their business plan.
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Think about ACTA, SOPA, etc
* in the least untruthful way
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Re: Copyright status irrelevant
If computers can SWEAR to an automated bogus DMCA takedown, then computers can also CREATE automated bogus content.
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The importance of publishing!
It needs to be plausible that any big content, big copyright maximalist people could have possibly seen / heard / read Qentis's 'valuable' work and then copied it.
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Re: That's not their business plan.
Obviously, every possible 256 x 256 pixel image is not interesting. But many of them are.
They might have a machine learning algorithm trained to recognize noise and non-noise. Non-noise images get further sub variations created.
From the non-noise, you could use trained recognizers to classify images. Images containing certain objects (say people, animals, plants, etc) could have more variations produced.
As another example, take a set of types of things (cars, dogs, etc) that might appear in a photograph, and create ways of generating simple representations of those. On a larger scale combine various combinations of types of elements into composite images.
For sounds, generate random chord sequences according to some basic rules. Over any given set of chords, generate every possible melody as any note from first chord, followed by any note from second chord, etc. Use rules to discard obvious junk. Use machine learning to identify things that are appealing based on the training set.
All they need is to 'create' something similar enough to an artist in order to shake them down.
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Furthermore, they don't just use copyright as a means to profit, they use it:
* as an anti-competitive weapon against anyone who might create anything interesting
* as a means to keep artists enslaved
* as a means to control artists (if you don't do what I say, pretty thing, you won't be cutting any new records)
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A better use of Qentis technology
I propose another important use of your valuable technology.
Generate every possible patent. A patent application doesn't have to make sense. It just needs to be in a particular form with obscure terminology, impenetrable language and very simple vector drawings.
Please don't generate patent applications faster than the USPTO can accept them. Just make sure that the USPTO is unable to process any other patent applications.
As a side effort you could form a betting pool on how many of your generated patent applications will be granted.
Good luck!
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Re: Response to: Anonymous Coward on Sep 29th, 2014 @ 11:40am
=> (clojure.math.numeric-tower/expt 256 1024)
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Re: Cost Effective?
While they won't produce anything great right away, they will no doubt very quickly create every possible Perl program.
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One single instance of {piracy | bogus takedown} can do huge economic damage and result in the loss of large numbers of sales.
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Warner's proposed schedule
Within ten days Warner will propose a schedule something like:
Warner is diligently working to release its proprietary process* for sending bogus DMCA takedowns. Warner anticipates that it will be able to produce one step of the process each one quarter of a galactic turn.
Warner respectfully asks the court to keep the process under seal so that others cannot use it against us. It would be very disruptive of our business if others could send Warner bogus DMCA takedowns that had the force of law.
* Warner's proprietary process for sending bogus DMCA takedowns has been licensed to four other major studios, and the license agreement requires non-disclosure of the process used.
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Re: If you call a liar a liar you'll get censored
We have a winner.
If any news outlet doesn't act as the government's mouthpiece, they lose access to government officials, press releases/conferences/briefings.
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Could global warming have anything to do with solar coronal mass ejections?
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So that explains why CNN keeps repeating the same stories over and over and over.
In Wolf Blitzer's monotone voice grating on and on.
I quit watching a year and some months ago and, strangely, I don't feel any less informed. The things that did it for me was how they didn't cover SOPA and how they did cover Snowden.
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Re: Re: Re:
This is a bad idea for two reasons:
0. It unfairly would require all high school students to have the ability to read.
1. It would unduly distract students from sports
2. It makes students less useful worker bees for future exploitation by corporate overlords.
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Re: Stupid Law and Waste of Taxper Resources
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Stupid Law and Waste of Taxper Resources
Wouldn't it be much more efficient to simply install cameras into every NJ home to allow continuous central remote monitoring for underage drinkers?
Think of the manpower that would be saved. The equipment cost is a one time capital investment. For the good of all. The equipment maintenance is cheaper than the manpower to manually search all homes.
The city council should be ashamed.
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