Comments on: Could Quantum Computing Kill Copyright?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:26:00 +0000

That makes no sense. A human is capable of creating any image that could ever exist. Because I’m a human, does that mean I own the copyright to every image? No, because I didn’t actually create every image, I’m simply capable of it.

100 people might come up with the same idea for a product, image, piece of music, etc. But it’s the first one that does it and can show proof to properly secure a copyright that matters.

I can’t claim ownership of every patent or copyright that hasn’t existed yet simply because I own a human mind which can create/describe all of these patents and copyrights if given the opportunity and time.

By: Buglord

Buglord — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 19:57:00 +0000

while taking a shit, I thought about another thing, how about just making a code/script/[whatever can be used] that will convert all images, maybe 250*250, 50 colors or so, into a not so extremely long value which would ONLY be a few bits per image, (at first, adding when needed) 1, all is black, 10, black with one slighly less black pixel in a corner and so on… 11, 101, 110, 111.. etc.. etc..

but that might just be shit that came out of my ass…

By: Jacob Valenta

Jacob Valenta — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 06:42:00 +0000

Do you realize that if ever image is made, You would have any picture (i know that is a stupid sentance but think about it) You could find an image of yourself at niagra falls, a magnificent sunset, your child when he grown up, your own grave. In a sense, this could open up a kind of creepy time/place travel.

By: John Gottschalk

John Gottschalk — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:19:00 +0000

Still doesn’t cover upscaling an image, because it would have more detail, so you’d only cover images under 500×500, anything larger can’t be covered, so it’s hardly even an issue because most artists work larger than that to begin with.

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By: mark

mark — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 07:44:00 +0000

creativity is impossible to avoid in any context.

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By: Lawnun

Lawnun — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:41:00 +0000

(Limited) copyright monopolies aren’t anti-capitalist at all. When they were originally envisioned (protecting for a scant 28 years), they did so with the intent _to_ encourage capitalistic enterprise in the first place. Copyright (and patent law) are what encourage people to go out and create, to put the ‘sweat’ into things. Think pre-internet (back when we were writing books and pamphlets and such) and it becomes a pretty easy thing to grok.

The key word of course, is _limited_. And reasonable people have and do disagree on whether or not we’re even in the limited stage anymore.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:35:00 +0000

You’re forgetting the key part – it is *trivial* to compress every single 500×500@8bpp image in existence. If it was only a randomly selected portion of these images it would have taken HUGE space but since the “algorithm” that creates all these images (given sufficient time) is the shortest way to describe all of them, one only has to store the algorithm.

Not that it should be possible to copyright/patent an algorithm that calculates every possible permutation of a set in the first place so Ben Jones is overly concerned about something that doesn’t really matter.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:35:00 +0000