Submission + - Poll: Should we ban articles with paywalled links? 1
2. No, but a clear warning should be added to the title
3. Not at all, it's all about freedom of expression
“Whilst I accept that the law of copyright will continue to face challenges with new digital technologies, I do not see any prospect of the law as currently stated and understood in the caselaw allowing copyright protection of subject-matter which is not expressed or fixed anywhere.” wrote Judge Mellor
In other words Wright has failed to show any evidence that he wrote down the file format somewhere to claim that he created the file format. This is not the first time Wright has failed to produce credible evidence in a court case: in a Oslo, Norway case last year Wright claimed he destroyed a hard drive in 2016 containing the Nakomoto original keys despite telling a US court in 2020 that he was waiting on the same keys to be delivered by a special courier. Those keys were later ruled to be fictitious.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. - Andy Finkel, computer guy