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CamperBob
on June 24, 2011
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Kind of Screwed
What are your thoughts on the question at the bottom of the blog entry, where he gradually reduces the 'copy' to a 2x2-pixel mipmap and asks where the bright line of copyright should be drawn?
varjag
on June 24, 2011
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Reductio ad absurdum. Despite the Latin name, it's not a proof technique.
ajuc
on June 24, 2011
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Yes it is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
Examples in math abounds.
varjag
on June 24, 2011
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You live and you learn. I only knew it as proof by contradiction, didn't realize it's actually the same thing.
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