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If Google has the copyright on "1", they only need to get "0" as well and they'll have everything.

Already there, I made some test files. The ones with "1", "1\n", and "0\n" are all now flagged. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30063319

So, "someone" has them copyrighted.

All copyright-infringing files are ~50% 1's, therefore there is a 50% chance of every file with a 1 in being copyright-infringing!

Statistics don't lie, which is presumably why google employs so many of them, to calculate these efficiencies.

> Statistics don't lie

However statistics can be used to confuse.

If a file is 50% 1's, then a 1-digit file has a 50% chance of infringing. More than that, the chance of infringement grows pretty fast.

Also, if "1" is copyright, then a file with a "1" in it is infringing; there's no chance there. It's certainty.

0 = 1 - 1 so they have everything already!

Only if they have patented -

Not - as an abstract concept, but perhaps "a method and apparatus for subtracting numbers"

There must be some internet law that states something like "no flippant comment about the absurdities of copyright law is so crazy that a patent troll won't be inspired by it"

Or XOR

Point of order: you've changed the method of restriction from copyright to patent.

Here is a joke that relies on the assumption that the platform is suggesting they own the copyright, instead of someone else that isn't the user.

God, I'm glad I stored all my files using quantum superpositions.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-08-29

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