When IBANs were introduced here it was just a matter of prepending 4 static digits to all of our account numbers which have always had control digits per se.
Unless moped crime performed by guys with balaclavas is 100% of all the crime that occurs in London, your comment is pointless.
There's a way to attack this crime while reducing the number of policemen, and it's to attack the demographics of it, but of course that will get you called names :-)
1) It clearly does not work (as opposed to "it has a low accuracy" which just means they will have to filter manually) and
2) They are pursuing a goal of policing with fewer police officers and
3) Having a working solution would mean they could police with fewer police officers (cameras can't detain suspects or intervene when problems arise, AND police officers don't carry a mental database of all suspects like a computer could have, so having cameras does not replace having police officers).
DDG is super super bad. I don't know why people recommend it at all. Now that you mentioned !g I remembered all my DDG experiments... 1) change my default search engine to DDG, 2) use it for some time, 3) use !g in half of my searches, 4) use !g in all of my searches, 5) say "fuck it" and switch back to google
So change the law or whatever, but as it is, they own the copyright, whether you like it or not. Saying otherwise is at the same level of discourse as using the word "Micro$oft" and similar puerile rubbish.
Hmm, should've specified better. It reminds me of those webpages professors have in the website of the university, for which they write the HTML themselves, and they always use Times New Roman with some horrible colour scheme, heh