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Comment Re:I don't recall... (Score 2) 887

If it's anything like the movies, a search warrant allows police to search property by any means necessary

Actually, if it is anything like the movies, a quirky, slightly overweight, but cute computer genius that works for the feds will type 4 or 5 keystrokes, then the computer will flash lots of semi garbled text while emitting cute little beeps for 10 or so seconds until the encryption is broken.

Comment Re:What the heck? (Score 1) 292

I don't believe that IBM made the claim that "headers are not copyrightable". I believe they made claims like "this specific set of files does not contain copyrightable information", which is much different than "headers are not copyrightable". Its not like copyright law has any exception for header files

Comment Re:What the heck? (Score 2) 292

The majority of the linux kernel headers ARE copyrighted. Look for yourself. Perhaps you are trying to make a claim that "headers are not copyrightable", but that would be crazy. Perhaps google is doing this with the idea that "although the headers are copyrightable and people are claiming copyright on them, after you strip all the comments from the files, what you are left with is no longer copyrightable". I'm sure you could find people on both sides of that argument.

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