Chiralhydra - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Bullshit FTA (Score 1) 90

by Chiralhydra on Monday February 04, 2008 @10:57AM (#22290868) Attached to: Particle Swarm Optimization for Picture Analysis

Unless I am REALLY missing something, it is next to impossible to go from a blurry distorted image to pin-sharp.

Actually it is possible. It has been done to uncover blurred out credit card numbers, for instance. Also, in addition to the methods used in TFA, one can use fractal compression. This matches the 'shapes' in the image to individual fractals, and allows zooming in much further than originally possible without producing pixellation. This is used routinely in the publishing business with low-resolution images, with programs such as this: http://www.ononesoftware.com/detail.php?prodLine_id=2.

So, at least in principle, there's no reason why the software can't do that.

DoJ Sides With RIAA On Damages 469

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 04, 2007 @05:23PM from the banding-together-with-bullies dept.

Alberto G writes "As Jammie Thomas appeals the $222,000 copyright infringement verdict against her, the Department of Justice has weighed in on a central facet of her appeal: whether the $9,250-per-song damages were unconstitutionally excessive and violated the Due Process Clause of the Constitution. The DoJ says that there's nothing wrong with the figure the jury arrived at: '[G]iven the findings of copyright infringement in this case, the damages awarded under the Copyright Act's statutory damages provision did not violate the Due Process Clause; they were not "so severe and oppressive as to be wholly disproportioned to the offense or obviously unreasonable."' The DoJ also appears to buy into the RIAA's argument that making a file available on a P2P network constitutes copyright infringement. 'It's also impossible for the true damages to be calculated, according to the brief, because it's unknown how many other users accessed the files in the KaZaA share in question and committed further acts of copyright infringement.'"

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