Re:Idiotic comparison (Score 1)

The odds that someone would run 1000 Google book queries to manually stitch together a single copyrighted book from each search snippet is about the same odds that someone finding a 100x200 thumbnail on Google will use it to redraw the original 1024x2048 image. It's an absurd argument

I totally agree that it is absurd but I'm pretty convinced that it *is* theorically possible to look for different parts of a book to reconstruct the whole. Thing is, you won't ever know which terms to look for and that is what makes it impossible. Should you have all the different parts of a text, you might be able to rebuild the original full text from them. Should you have the whole Web backed up on your [insert storage device here], you would be able to look for these exerpts. Of course, it would not be done by hand but rather by bot.

If you had all the parts of a bigger picture, however, and they were of poor quality (as is usually the case with thumbnails), you would never be able to scale them to their better quality sample, even though you should be able to guess what the image should look like by assembling the parts together.