While we can access disks as file, the question that arise is, even though the IDE drivers have such large addressing capabilities, are the file handles and the file system able to support files, and I really say files here, larger than 4GB?
I remember creating a tarball file (due to a bug in tar) larger than 4GB and I couldn't even access/delete/unlink it anymore from my hard drive, linux would simply not allow it.
What's next? I start charging for invasion of my electronic wave space when people use gps or cellphone on my property? or when an actual satellite is downstreaming over my potatoes' garden?
Who is gonna pay then? the guy picking up your gps location while using your local electronic wave space or you poor guy that got this mailman with a gps receiver and getting coordinates of every house down the street?
I agree that a particular database compilation could be copyrighted, but particular gps location shouldn't be copyrighted!
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While we can access disks as file, the question that arise is, even though the IDE drivers have such large addressing capabilities, are the file handles and the file system able to support files, and I really say files here, larger than 4GB?
I remember creating a tarball file (due to a bug in tar) larger than 4GB and I couldn't even access/delete/unlink it anymore from my hard drive, linux would simply not allow it.
What's next? I start charging for invasion of my electronic wave space when people use gps or cellphone on my property? or when an actual satellite is downstreaming over my potatoes' garden?
Who is gonna pay then? the guy picking up your gps location while using your local electronic wave space or you poor guy that got this mailman with a gps receiver and getting coordinates of every house down the street?
I agree that a particular database compilation could be copyrighted, but particular gps location shouldn't be copyrighted!