I assume he/they meant "cryptolopes". The missing bits here could lead to a
loss of clue. One might think that extremely cold 'lopers were running amok.
> Stanford Copy Analysis Mechanism which "roams the internet in
> search of words or phrases that its masters have reason to believe
> may have been illicitly borrowed.")
Mondo concept. Given a web full of monkeys on $500 network appliances, how
long will it take for them to duplicate a previously copyrighted, or better
yet, an illegal (or at least export-restricted) string of bits? If I ask you
all to sing me Happy Birthday via MBONE next May, will the international
high-energy physics community have to pay royalties to ASCAP? Can they detect
it if you sing off-key?
And then there may be restrict bits about bits. How about a SCAM-like engine
which scans the net for unlicensed metadata? Say, for example, that a certain
Redmond organization we all love went looking for FAT directories on systems
which have no detectable DOS license? This could get enormously silly.
Cheers,
Wayne
"And it's too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around."
Pink Floyd