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Copyright Claimed on Telephone Tones
awful writes: "Two composers in Australia have copyrighted over 100,000,000,000 phone tone dialing sequences. They state in the article that they are lampooning copyright laws that protect big business rather than artists. Their website has more info and explains how they did it. You can check your number and make sure it hasn't been copyrighted by these guys. They have already recieved one offer of money - from a guy who wanted to purchase the copyright to his number so he could stop direct marketing firms from calling him." Somehow I don't think the inventors of DTMF envisioned this. Update: 10/04 14:11 GMT by M : There's a US mirror available.
that this is really cool.
and i wand a first post.
Walk to hospital...
Tones copyright Microsoft
Can't call 911
The worst terrorist attack in recorded history occurred less than one month ago, and you people have the gall to be discussing how two composers in Australia have copyrighted over 100,000,000,000 phone tone dialing sequences, who state in the article that they are lampooning copyright laws that protect big business rather than artists???? My *god*, people, GET SOME PRIORITIES!
The bodies of the 6000+ innocent people who died in this unprecedented tragedy could give a good god damn about your foolish copyright actions, your childish Lego models, your nerf toy guns and whining about the lack of a "fun" workplace, your Everquest/Diablo/D&D fixation, the latest Cowboy Bebop rerun, or any of the other ways you are "getting on with your life" (here's a hint: watching Cowboy Bebop in your jammies and eating a bowl of Shreddie's is *not* "getting on with your life"). The souls of the victims are watching in horror as you people squander your finite, precious time on this earth playing video games!
You people disgust me! In a way, you're almost as bad as the terrorists themselves. At least they had the conviction to die doing something they believed in.
(insert cheesy porn music here)"Pick up the phoooonnnneeee"
"I thought I had an Appetite for Destruction, when all I really wanted was a club sandwich."
The worst terrorist attack in recorded history occurred less than three weeks ago, and you people are discussing how two composers in Australia have copyrighted over 100,000,000,000 phone tone dialing sequences and how they state in the article that they are lampooning copyright laws that protect big business rather than artists?!?!?!? My *god*, people, GET SOME PRIORITIES!
The bodies of nearly 10,000 dead people could give a good god damn about telephone dialing tones, your childish Lego models, your nerf toys and lack of a "fun" workplace, your Everquest/Diablo/D&D addiction, or any of the other ways you are "getting on with your life".
How can the first post of the story be "score 0 redundant"?
No Jenny there.
*whup* "Get along, little electrons. Heeyah!"
How the fuck is it redundant? It was like the fifth thing posted? Dumb ASS!
its in the fucking artical dick head - thats why they invented hyperlinks.
If a million monkeys type out the source code to MS Office.
:)
Isn't that how it was written in the first place anyway?
Close, but not quite: they made a program that would create every possible combination of random bytes for sizes in exponential increases of 10 and then take the biggest available one that does something. That's why it's so big and unstable. The computing power costs a lot, and most of their staff just does testing on the rare ones that run to make sure they pass low-quality assurance, so it costs a lot.
Each 'new release' just means that their generator went through a few exponential increases and they found something that wasn't just the previous version with the word Linux filling the extra space
They that quote Benjamin Franklin on liberty and safety deserve neither.
This is absolutely f'ing absurd! Next they will be slappin copyrights on a series of fart noises coming out of every fat person's ass, including my own!
There are two problems that I see with this, 2 guys who think they're more intelligent than anyone on the face of this earth and they're f*cking blood sucking lawyers who are so damned money hungry and stupid to allow something like this to materialize.
Down with LAWYERS!
Obviously, the correct moderation is flamebait, due to the use of the term karma whore, you crack addicted puddle of cow droppings.
Stone Cold Steve Austin? Is that you?
From behind.