> because the human brain is some kind of copyright laundering machine
I once came up with the idea of a physical copyright laundering machine. It had three CD-R drives (this shows how long ago I had the idea). You’d insert a CD-ROM to launder, and two blank CD-R discs. To one of the CD-Rs, it would write a one-time pad, to the other it would write the input CD-ROM XOR the one-time pad. A hardware RNG (I wanted to use a quantum process such as radioactive decay for more emphatic indeterminism) generates the one-time pad. It also generates a single random bit which determines which output CD-R gets the key and which one gets the ciphertext. That bit is never revealed to the user (or recorded in any way). The end result is two CD-Rs, one containing random data, the other a copyrighted work encrypted with random data-but it is impossible to know which is which.
I never actually built one of these machines. I wanted to patent it, but gave up when I realised how much patents cost. I also eventually realised that my machine would never work, because it was approaching the law with the mind of a developer not the mind of a judge - I doubt any judge would actually be convinced by my copyright laundering machine, they’d find a way to rule against it, whatever exact way that might be. The law and computing are both systems of rules, but the rules in the former involve far more discretion and flexible interpretation.
I once came up with the idea of a physical copyright laundering machine. It had three CD-R drives (this shows how long ago I had the idea). You’d insert a CD-ROM to launder, and two blank CD-R discs. To one of the CD-Rs, it would write a one-time pad, to the other it would write the input CD-ROM XOR the one-time pad. A hardware RNG (I wanted to use a quantum process such as radioactive decay for more emphatic indeterminism) generates the one-time pad. It also generates a single random bit which determines which output CD-R gets the key and which one gets the ciphertext. That bit is never revealed to the user (or recorded in any way). The end result is two CD-Rs, one containing random data, the other a copyrighted work encrypted with random data-but it is impossible to know which is which.
I never actually built one of these machines. I wanted to patent it, but gave up when I realised how much patents cost. I also eventually realised that my machine would never work, because it was approaching the law with the mind of a developer not the mind of a judge - I doubt any judge would actually be convinced by my copyright laundering machine, they’d find a way to rule against it, whatever exact way that might be. The law and computing are both systems of rules, but the rules in the former involve far more discretion and flexible interpretation.