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If I were to dumb this down (so I can understand it), is this a fair analogy to the adage "give 1 million monkeys 1 million typewriters and they'll eventually type the entire works of William Shakespeare"?
Somewhere in pi (at some insane offset) is the entire work of William Shakespeare.
Is that the basic idea here?
what product was this?
That's a pretty blatant mischaracterization.
He paid his friends (&friends of friends) to host the package, to compensate them for having to bring it in every night, charge it, and replace it. Unbeknownst to him, a friend-of-a-friend faked some of the thefts - I think potentially for additional compensation, but I'm not sure if that was the right motive.
I thought he handled it honestly and professionally - people noticed something off in the video, shared their data, he investigated, concluded what happened, edited the video to remove those thefts, and added an apology upfront.
https://twitter.com/markrober/status/1075767629703372800?lan...
what sort of substantive analysis of the patents in this case have you done to justify claiming that this case indicates we need patent reform?