they can't, that's the point. So anon comments will effectively be banned.

since verifying the person is who they say they are is prohibitively hard it'll also do away with user generated content and we can go back to the way things were in the good old days with massive media companies telling us what to think without every tom dick and harry giving their opinion.

though 256, just to be sure, is probably a good idea for anything really important long term.

cryptographers do, after all, find ways to reduce the cost of attacking particular encrption methods occasionally.

and these truths were?

that's *already the case*.

large companies already copycat small time inventors, never paying them.

Almost all companies *already* use closed source, black-box implementations.

patents for everyone.... everyone with a patent and legal budget, that is.

The software industry is the wrong kind of industry for patents.

You're still combining the worst possible elements of the current system with the worst elements of your own.

Your proposed system has no advantages over the current copyright system while in many ways being vastly worse.

Now any musicians have to handle manufacturing disks and distributing them. way to step back half a century and game makers have to do the same.

It's lovely that you think only the platforms you like should have copyright protection but you've given no reasons. you just keep making your proposal worse and worse.

So, musicians who distribute their music only over the net or game makers who sell only through steam or similar services, bypassing traditional middlemen are out in the cold and don't get copyright protection while big old companies who sell physical media get copyright protection?

that's possibly the worst possible combination.

You'd have to go through a big company like disney to publish, they'd also want a cut of the digital sales and they can just keep an archive of small numbers of print on demand copies "on sale" for all eternity.

Copyright is *all about* non-physical things.

and so 10,000 years after the first showing of Steamboat Willie a lightening storm finally knocked out all of disneys servers at once and mickey finall entered the public domain.

disney had been listing digital copies for the very reasonable price of 1000 times the average anual wage per copy.

with digital distribution and no upper ceiling on price that effectively means eternal copyright since companies can keep everything they've ever made "on sale" for a price better compared to the GDP of small countries.

I dunno. Back in college I used to write code which did a task and also had some form of back door. I'd then challenge my friends to find it.

rarely could they find it even in reasonably minor applications or scripts.of course better coders would be better at finding them but better coders would also be better at hiding them.

He was referencing the books ending.

"He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."

Hopefully given the relatively precise structure of legal documents we'll one day have really good expert systems to help simplify things from the lay persons point of view.