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Own Your Own 128-Bit Integer
Byte Swapper writes "After all the fuss over the AACS trying to censor a certain 128-bit number that now has something over two million hits on Google, the folks at Freedom to Tinker would like to point out that you too can own your own integer. They've set up a script that will generate a random number, encrypt a copyrighted haiku with it, and then deed the number back to you. You won't get a copyright on the number or the haiku, but your number has become an illegal circumvention device under the DMCA, such that anyone subject to US law caught distributing it can be punished under the DMCA's anti-trafficking section, for which the DMCA's Safe Harbor provisions do not apply. So F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C088 is truly mine now, and you can pry it out of my cold, dead fingers!"
That's right, 5D 09 7F B4 60 B8 FB BD D0 2B 6A A3 F2 F6 AB CA is mine, and I'll be playing it in the Impossiball Lottery twice a week until it pays off. No more Quick Picks for me!
... or even as a WPA (or WEP) key!
... and don't think I won't. I'm crazy enough to do it. I swear I am. Really.
Remember kids, no one else out there can ever use 5D 09 7F B4 60 B8 FB BD D0 2B 6A A3 F2 F6 AB CA to play the lotto, to decrypt anything
I'll be googling 5D 09 7F B4 60 B8 FB BD D0 2B 6A A3 F2 F6 AB CA everyday until I win that lotto jackpot
Here is my number... I wonder if its also an AACS key by coincidence :)
I'll see your F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C088 and raise you a F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663D184
Ha! You'll never catch me coppahs!
We figured out a long time ago that it's easier to elect seven judges than to elect 132 legislators.
Mine's 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0. I wonder
Tedious Bloggy Stuff - hooray?
I thought the DMCA restrictions only applied to prime numbers like those that can be used for encryption?
"So F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C088 is truly mine now, and you can pry it out of my cold, dead fingers!"
sooooooooo, it has come to this !!!!!
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I think this will actually confuse people that are seeking the real key. Now everyone will see random 32 bits integer anywhere. But it's funny as hell too - even if script seems down.
Blame Canada!
Im burning dvds with " F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C088 " to the highest bidders. Shipping not included.
Please sue me for copyright infringment slashdot!
If I use your number (F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C088) in this reply, I guess slashdot will have to remove my comment if you file a complaint with the DMCA. Go ahead and try it, I'd like to see what happens with my posting of your number F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C088. There I said it again! Ha!
Why not create a system where ANY 128bit number can decrypt the haiku. Then you can go after anyone distributing any 128bit number. Say, like using IPv6.
I should go for the Powerball lottery too. What are the chances the key will turn out to be 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0?
One in 13256278887989457651018865901401704640? Who's infringing who?
"Making fun of the RIAA and the DMCA to justify pirating music. You are all criminals."
Isn't it great?!?!?!?!?!
Note to self: No more arguing with the faithful.
I'm going to go register "42".
Then I will own the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
I am a free man!
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered.
My life is my own.
There's no point in copyrighting these keys, they are way too many, actually there are exactly [CENSORED FOR COYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT] such keys.
\u262D = \u5350
EC4A5A090E3D4200F7CAE7C8FCC94B11 ...
I've used it once. Now I don't like it. I'm throwing it away...
This is just a ploy by The Man to mark you with one more identifying number.
Don't be surprised when your own 32 integer appears on your REAL ID card!
97 A5 9D EB B9 9C AD 48 5C 0F 61 3B 51 46 73 30
This is my 128-bit integer. There are many like it but this one is mine. My 128-bit integer is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my 128-bit integer is useless. Without my 128-bit integer I am useless.
--
Above content protected under DMCA, DRM and AACS (as a trade secret) by Johnny F.
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Oh, drat, I spilled the bean.
i hereby state copyright over the number 277, which is an expression of duality of the universe (heat/cold good/evil), and the fact all things, including 7, which is lucky,, are better in twos. Any expression of this piece of my work without my express written consent will be prosecuted to the full extent of any applicable laws.
--UPDATE--
I have noticed that some pirates have converted this note to a tone, they are calling it C sharp (277hz). My number is to be represented as a digit only, this is obviously an encryption circumvention technique and will not be tolerated. Please fork over 5 trillion dollars and your first born child.
NOW!
NewslilySocial News. No lolcats allowed.
...on ROT13!
Here's my key: 09 S9 11 02 9Q 74 R3 5O Q8 41 56 P5 63 56 88 P0
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
That's right, I'm claiming F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C087 and F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C089.
Being a criminal means infringing on someone's rights. Rights are defined as to determine how scarce resources are to be controlled. Information is not a scarce resource, by copying music from someone, I am not invading anyone's property, or if you prefer infringing on anyone's right.
\u262D = \u5350
13256278887989457651018865901401704640 is mine - don't touch it - I warn ya ! Nor do you touch 718624318471594843*2^64 + 15582831591453788352 which is also mine. Mine MINE MINE.
In fact any arithmetic expression or part thereof that evaluates to 13256278887989457651018865901401704640 is mine too !!! - oh wait ...
If anyone uses the number 3, I will send them a DMCA takedown notice for infringing on this encoded copyrighted work of literature.
Dfwxdoob L fdq'w uhdoob eh erwkhuhg wr vhqg dqb wdnhgrzq qrwlfhv. Dqg lw'v xqolnhob wkdw wklv vkruw ri d zrun fdq eh frsbuljkwhg, exw li brx fdq uhdg wklv, wkhq brx'yh frpplwhg wkh dfw ri flufxpyhqwlrq dqbzdb. (F) Gdqlho I. Vplwk, 2007
Right!
B5 71 ED FB 55 D6 4E 68 07 25 E2 FA CA 93 F0 2F, is mine! All mine!
Here's my copyrighted key:
:S
"Service Temporarily Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later."
I'm worried that someone will try to claim prior art though...
hex09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0
:(
Oh, and this seems to be slashdotted.
It's mine! Stay away!
Microsoft is Good!
NetBSD is slow!
OpenSource licensing is for idealistic hippies!
Hmm... Let's see now:
It seems like the infamous "Step 2" is "Trick slashdotters into including a DMCA DRM Circumvention Scheme in the Subject of their replies.
Excellent...
...79714.
Only Anonymous Coward is not a number.
Who is number 1?
One of the basic properties of copyright is that if you enclose it in quotes and attribute the source, like "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0", then there's no problem. This quoted integer is the public key for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray players.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
This is my 128-bit key.
There are many like it, but this one is MINE.
My 128-bit key is my best friend. It is my life.
I must master it as I must master my life.
My 128-bit key without me is useless. Without my 128-bit key, I am useless.
I must use my 128-bit key true.
I must encrypt better than my enemy who is trying to pwn my network.
I must root him before he roots me. I will...
My 128-bit key and myself know that what counts in war is not the physical layer,
the data link layer, nor the network layer.
We know it is the crypt that count. We will crypt...
My 128-bit key is human, even as I, because it is my life.
Thus, I will learn it as a brother.
I will learn its weaknesses, its strengths, its parts, its accessories,
its source code, and its algorithm.
I will ever guard it against the ravages of noobs and crackers.
I will keep my 128-bit key clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready.
We will become part of each other. We will...
Before God I swear this creed.
My 128-bit key and myself are the defenders of my network.
We are the masters of our enemy.
We are the saviors of my life.
So be it, until there is no enemy, but PEACE.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
which point out the flaws in the law which make it easy to illustrate that the law is buggy and needs rewriting??
funny..
US$0.02++
Practically every cryptographer will agree that as soon as your secret key is known, it is too late for damage control. The only thing you can do is change the key. Trying to suppress it is entirely futile and a singn of significant stupidity.
At the same time, you cannot protect numbers. They do not belong to anybody.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
I used pi. All your numbers are belong to me.
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.-- Frontinus, 1st cent. AD
Your proposal is acceptable.
Mea navis aericumbens anguillis abundat
Cause its copywrited and I can sue you for... not for hacking because no civil court would understand... but for using my number!
eight six seven five three ohhhh niiiiieeeeeyine!!!!!!!!!
Now you've done it!
All the numbers are gone!
What are the rest of us poor slobs to do?
Won't anyone think of the children?
Damn you! Damn you all to hell!
Welcome your new math overlord!
... then we are all criminals.
In B.C., our fascism is green.
I'm not sure "service temporarily unavailable" qualifies as a Haiku, however...
Lots of laws need to be broken. Bad laws disobeyed get them changed. How do you feel about the 'criminal' blacks that rode in the front of the bus in Mongomery Alabama in the 60's. Clearly criminal, but was it wrong?
DRM is not about copyright infringement, it is about criminalizing not letting some one control how you use what you actually buy and pay for.
I am sick of hearing that not paying some media giant every time you hear some song, or watch some movie is piracy. I do not think it is, and I do not think there is naything wrong with sharing it for free.
What I think copyright piracy is, it to make counterfeit CD's DVD's etc and selling them for money.
I see nothing at all wrong with sharing software, movies, songs, books, etc as long as you are not representing them to be original or charging for them.
Is this the way the laws are today? , nope, cause we have corrupt politicos doing the bidding of the big media companies that finance their campaigns.
So if my conscience tells me some law is wrong, unfair, or unjust, oh well.
Bad laws need to be broken often enough to make them change.
Looks at the 09 f9 thing, people have just had enough silliness with this.
Cheers
* Carthago Delenda Est *
one needs to patent entire sequences
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Off too the Public Notary to certify my date, time and number. 95 E8 6D E9 5A AF 04 25 98 53 28 29 59 17 C0 1A
I read the Wikipedia sire, and the episode itself, there is no step 2.
It is really phase 2.
I did find out what it is though.
Find someone dumb enough to buy it.
Like Japanesse buisnessman buying schoolgirl's underwear.
Why don't you guys have friends or journals?
If everybody starts taking their own 128-bit number, so that no one else can use it, what are we going to do when we run out of 128-bit numbers?
Note to ACs: I usually delete AC replies without reading them. If you want to talk to me, log in.
I just got 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00. I figured it's bound to turn up on someone's hard drive. My chances are now better than ever to live the American Dream of this century.
How about 1337? Damn, I'm going to be rich!
> At the same time, you cannot protect numbers. They do not belong to anybody.
Does this mean that Felton is lying and C2C9AE6F7181F6C28DEBB537C894A949 isn't really mine?
Hah hah! I stole it!
Making fun of the RIAA and the DMCA to justify pirating music. You are all criminals.
First off, we're talking about DVD's and movies, not music.
Secondly then if you want to live in a world where a corporation has the power to determine IF you are allowed to watch a movie you purchased, how many times, and on what equipment - then so be it. Most of us resent the very thought, much less this feeble and poorly thought out attempt at implementation.
Thirdly, copyright infringement has only recently been made a "crime", in the US. In many other countries it's a civil matter. You know, I have never driven under the speed limit - mostly I have driven 15 to 20% over. Should I go to jail for that, too?
I go to movies. I pay to go to the movies. Why do I have to sit through a 5 minute sermon on how evil piracy is when I paid to get there? Then again, when I buy a DVD, why the hell should I be FORCED to watch trailers and nowadays even ads? So I rip it, and get my right of choice back.
While this code can be used to rip things and publish them on the internet, it's useful to me mostly to be able to see the movies I bought in the format I want. Call me a criminal if you will. I will call you a mindless consumer. Take what you're given and shut up. Leave those of us who want to DO something about the situation alone - when the REAL information revolution happens you'll have us to thank.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
I wonder what would happen if some DRM system's random generator creates a very small number. Something like
00000000000000000000000000000005, or short, 5. Would the distribution of this number be forbidden as well? Would they really sue Sesame Street?
(unfortunately it's only a theoretic possibility...)
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 42
thats right suckers! I own the answer to life, the universe, and everything. Please, don't all send your checks to me at once.
stuff |
That one should pay off pretty quickly :-)
Lovely, except that we as a society have granted property rights in these 'resources' regardless of their scarcity in order to provide an incentive to create (they are no more or less scarce because they are digital - just easier to copy). Copyrights and patents are provided for in the US Constitution; just because the system is messed up today and allows abuse does not mean that giving property rights to intangibles is wrong. How many songs would there be for you to copy for free if the artists could get no money? How many books, movies, paintings, etc.? Some people would do it for the love of it, but no one would be able to do it for a living when anyone and everyone was free to copy as they liked.
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. - Albert Einstein
Now how will I keep the neighbors off the network ?
If I run this locally on all 3.4e + 38 values, does that protect me from DMCA take-down notices when I post one of the values online?
Build a man a fire, he's warm for one night. Set him on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Actually, since I don't pirate music or movies, never buy music and rarely buy movies and would have never even heard of that number if they hadn't tried to bury it *I* make fun of the RIAA and the DMCA because a) they're anti-fair use, b) they're bullies, and c) they "convince" (read bribe) our congress critters to pass *really* stupid laws for their own benefit.
So no, I am not a criminal, and if the RIAA (or anyone else for that matter) attempts to us 7C C4 29 01 00 F8 03 4A EE 26 06 76 6A 5E CD 87, well I'll be forced to use the DMCA to protect my valuable IP.
All prime numbers have been taken already :-(
There doing nothing of the sort, and you know it.
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"Service Unavailable". Cool.
hex("natalie portman") = 6e 61 74 61 6c 69 65 20 70 6f 72 74 6d 61 6e 00
Now she's mine! Those of you who invoke hot grits will be hearing from my lawyer.
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
why must it be 128bits? why not 8bits?
Piss off, some of us are communists.
You piss off, always the communists ignoring the anarchists.
Ahh yes the inevitable techy vs non-techy argument. I say we start a war, death to all stupid people!
Well hey let's just not stop at Civil War... let's go all out World War 3! Viva la resistance, er something.
If you can work a scientific calculator and your VCR (DVD/DVR, car, watch, cat, etc) isn't flashing 12:00, come with me!
FLR
That would be a great view point except:
He said 'Criminal' and not 'thief'. Therfore he is correct.
The governmen A.K.A the people have granted the right of copyright as per the constitution.
What it is not in an inaliable right.
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Unfortunately this is false reasoning. The argument falls apart in the second premise "[r]ights are defined as to determine how scarce resources are to be controlled".
Free speech is a right that has nothing to do with scarce resources. Neither is freedom of religion.
The premise of copyright and all the ancillary laws such as DMCA is, I believe, that the individual who creates a work has a right to compensation for that work. Under that reasoning when you illegally copy something you are, in fact, depriving someone of one of their rights.
Please note that I am not saying I am for or against copyright laws, DMCA, RIAA, AACS, or WTFBBQ. I am simply saying 'here is the flaw in your argument' and 'here is the point of view of those in opposition to you'.
The Great One, he was 99. No one else was, nor will anyone be 99.
3c68746d6c3e and 3c48544d4c3e are hereby covered by the DMCA. I expect to see royalty payments from all of you HTTP hosts out there!
This has been done before with the DeCSS algorithm, for the express purpose of proving that it's stupid to restrict it's distribution as, supposedly, you can't prevent a prime number with interesting property to be published in press.
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
I had a similar idea, but I was going to encrypt something of mine with todays date in "Monthname daynum, YYYY" format, and then go around the web posting threats everywhere the date is used.
What, some set of numbers are more magical than anothers? :-)
Belief is the currency of delusion.
...ni!
We are now that knights that say "AE 5D 8C 32 C9 AD 30 E8 74 BE 43 CC 75 6F 1C E4"!
Bring us a shrubbery.
You missed out 'How many roads must a man walk down?'
Don't go to a brothel if you want to buy broth
Forced? someone is prying your eyes open? Someone is refusig to let me you in after the trailers start?
Don't be melodramatic...besides some people like the trailers.
I do agree however that we should eb able to rip anything to any media, as lng as we are not distributing it. If someone thinks Another party is distributing their work, then they should ahve to get a court order.
But don't go on withy the word FORCED. Inconvienced is more accurate, but that doesn't make you sound like a victim.
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Information may not be a scarce resource, but good music is. The number of good songs in the world is (from the perspective of most people) much smaller than the number of bad songs. So someone who writes a good song thus has ownership rights to something that could reasonably be considered a scarce resource, and as such, by copying music from someone, you are indeed infringing upon the songwriter's right (by your definition, at least).
Making fun of the RIAA and the DMCA to justify pirating music.
Awwwww, is the widdle guy's feelings hurt?
Speaking of which, none of this has anything to do with the RIAA or music, the AACS key encrypts movies.
Of course, not getting your facts straight is typical of stupid trolls.
You can turn your own, personal 128 bits into an image here: http://robots.org.uk/itii/
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 11
See?
Dunno. I know of one guy who's somewhat unexpectedly finding himself being subject to U.S. law. Sadly, as a U.S. taxpayer, I'll probably wind up partially footing the bill for any prison time he ends up doing.
Too bad (John) Howard and Co. didn't grow a pair and defend their citizen more assertively.
If I add one to the certain 128-bit number the AACS is trying to censor, is the new number also protected? What about the number after that?
What if I multiply the number by two or use a more complex computation to find another number? Is disclosing my computation and the final number also forbidden?
it is where I work.
"Just Smile and Nod." --Huck
I never thought there would *actually* be a campaign to use up all the GUIDs.
I wonder, the website encrypts the copyrighted haiku and whatnot, and the keys become illegal circumvention devices, but I wonder, does the fact that that website is basically a mockery of the law, or at least a parody, or a joke, or at the very least, simply not meant to be taken seriously, mean that these joke keys are unenforceable? Could you really challenge someone using these keys, or would a court say that there is no serious basis to the material on the site.... it's an interesting question (and I wonder if it could create a precedent that could impact the real dmca...)
ìì!
"you insensitive clod" would have fit nicely in there.
00000000000000000000000000000001
And also10000000000000000000000000000000
And especially...- 00000000000000000000000000000000
- F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
- 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0F
- FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
- FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
- 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
- 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
- 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11
- 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
- FE FE FE FE FE FE FE FE FE FE FE FE FE FE FE FE
Any integer that has any of these numbers as a substring, is also not allowed to be published, as any such number may be used as part of a circumvention device to gain access to my material effectively protected by technological copy protection measures.Where would we be if Wheel had hid her round rock in a cave instead of showing everyone how it rolls?
Don't forget to get your hex tattooed!!!!!! Probably on your balls or something! Great fun for court evidence, now you can sue your pants off someone!
Balderdash!
Shouldn't this be +5 funny? ;)
No, it means breaking a criminal law.
That's a rather unusual definition of rights. A more typical definition of a right would be "a just claim or title, whether legal, prescriptive, or moral." (the first noun definition.)
You are violating a legal property right.
Really, your entire argument seems to be based on inventing unusual definitions of words ("criminal", "right", "property") as if they were the normal, uncontroversial, widely accepted definitions, and then just claiming that your preferred conclusion flows naturally from your definitions. That's rather silly.
When I was younger, the only stupid people we had to deal with were the two-bits. Now we got all these 128-bits running around to make people more stupidier.
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As far as I know, there's no requirement that the number you use as a key need be random; it makes sense cryptographically of course, but the law has no such requirement.
I wonder if you could patent some choice GUID's, and sue Microsoft if they choose to include them in their operating system without paying you royalties...
The site appears to be slashdooted just as I was about to post my number. So, I'll record it here instead.
F0 89 5B 82 AD 09 90 9F 94 E0 B3 D3 3F 6C 99 2F
is mine. Finally, a number to call my very own, and a nice one too. Lots of nines.
ping 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0.com
PING c17-ss-2-lb.cnet.com (216.239.113.148) 56(84) bytes of data.
"So F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C088 is truly mine now, and you can pry it out of my cold, dead fingers!"
Oh Goodie! That's the fun part!
If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
b4 5b 1e 84 f0 1a 49 19 6d 9b ce d2 e2 2a 20 4c
= hex for all my other numbers...
62 5d a4 5d d8 8d 2a 1a cb 65 9d 46 80 cd 4d 69
dc 3a a4 5b 26 86 7d 40 e9 ef 86 d8 0a 81 1c 16
03 a8 a6 0a 18 48 44 22 f3 bd ae b7 61 26 d3 ae
ff 93 ef af 83 f5 1f 91 08 18 3d 09 ad 0a bd 0e
24 80 5d d6 b5 55 b8 83 1f ba 7a 49 d8 39 2f bb
58 23 07 2b b1 4b a9 b1 75 6f dd 9a 13 56 db 14
78 b3 5b 95 1a ce b3 18 5a 75 cc b8 69 30 c8 31
ec 2d 9b c7 89 f9 fe 73 16 17 d4 0d 14 e9 58 fb
4f 43 78 14 4d e5 8d 78 4f 6f 74 8b 08 81 3a ef
b6 10 e4 a9 fb bd 52 c7 be 48 f3 92 df d1 1c 5c
fb 3b b3 0c 5e 07 96 d4 3e 65 b6 4e 5b 79 c6 ff
43 46 32 f3 89 6a f7 52 31 37 7e 3c d0 e6 40 9d
06 aa 4a 62 9f c2 ac 03 6a 10 d3 1e 78 74 76 64
64 7f 72 10 9c ee e2 e1 3d 09 c4 5c 25 e3 62 50
65 92 d5 35 b3 c7 3d db 6b af 70 11 c6 55 f1 3c
See http://random.hd.org/getBits.jsp?numBytes=16&type
Keep your hands OFF *my* numbers!
Rgds
Damon
http://m.earth.org.uk/
Suddenly my sig seems strangely relevant. I actually made the site before the latest HD-DVD fiasco. (yes you can buy (for free) numbers. no you can not buy 128bit numbers.)
-dave
http://millionnumbers.com/ - own the number of your dreams
And if my luck holds out, I'll own "404" next.
John
I think I'll see if I can find a way to own 31415926535897932384626433832795. Then I just dare any of you to draw a circle.
MeI'm not an actor, but I play one on television.
They own integer only in connection to software. The problem is that too many people know which lock this key opens. It is like finding a juror for a case that have been very public.
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
You'll *both* be first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Long live homeopathy
"Society" doesn't grant anything, society has no purpose, no will, no existence, it is just a collection of individuals. The US constitution is just a piece of paper written by some individuals and agreed to by some other individuals. Not "society" and certainly not me.
\u262D = \u5350
I see your 7D 02 3A B4 61 F3 F0 AA 2C 2B 93 B2 EA F0 AB 29 is as big as mine.
As part of a fundraiser, the math faculty where I went to university assigned prime numbers to people who donated some amount of money. I forget what my number was, and I doubt it was that large, but if your 128 bit number is prime, and starts (or ends? I forget which) with 2001, then you may not be the real owner :)
You are free to say anything you want precisely because that does not alter those resources nor anyone's life against its will (which also is a scarce resource, I don't have copies of my mind)
\u262D = \u5350
except it got slashdotted before i got there, now i'll never own my own number!
F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C088
That's interesting! I've Got the Same Combination on My Luggage!
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
Reading through this topic made me feel like I was watching some bizarre geek bukkake film. I just feel bad for whoever that is at the center covered by the result of all of you mentally masturbating so furiously.
Slashdot - where whining about luck is the new way to make the world you want.
Copies of a good song are not scarce. What is really scarce is production of good songs, and a property right of disclosure can of course be applied to that.
\u262D = \u5350
D'oh!
No matter. The first 15 characters are enough for me to prove that you thought about circumventing DRM and if the last six years are any guide, then within two years simply thinking about how to circumvent DRM will be a crime.
If /.ers were to create 100 million unique 128-bit keys per second, it would take 1.078x10^23 years (about 7.7 trillion times the age of the universe) to exhaust the 128-bit keyspace. This suggests that giving some kind of legal protection over every single key actually generated might not be harmful public policy. Sure, eventually many of those numbers would have ASCII/UNICODE/etc. meanings such as "free speech good" (128 bits in ASCII), but protection for a number as part of a copyright access control technology does not imply that the creator of the number has any rights over those who have re-created the same number by coincidence. The AACS key might exist out there as part of an audio encoding, image, or movie file. But the AACS has not been trying to stamp out the remote possibility of coincidental use of this number. The only use that they have gone after has been use of the number as a key that is part of a copyright access control technology.
If you don't like laws that protect copyright access control technologies, it is best to develop policy arguments against such laws. Gimicks like creating 128-bit numbers that others can "own" don't prove much of anything.
Piss off, I just copy what high-rated posts say.
If you mod this up, your slashdot background will turn into a beautiful sunset!
The DVD player doesn't let you skip or fast forward them, which fits most people's definition of forced.
...404 (dec) or 0x194 as my own personal, copyrighted, DMCA'd number.
All of you using the number 404 on your web servers must cease and desist immediately!
MCSE? No, sir...I don't do Windows. Yes, I am an idealist. What's your point?
fa ce ad ec ad e0 fd ec af c0 ff ee 4b ad co de
The direct implication of what I've said is that leftism is completely immoral, you are way way off.
\u262D = \u5350
I'm getting my own piece of digits! Stupid slashdot effect, interfering with my right to monopolize a digit. I might just have to sue about that...
Give Kashyyyk back to the Wookies
No missing steps!!!
1. Get a massive amount of people to encrypt files using the names of artists, albums, songs, or videos published by the RIAA/MPAA.
2. Inundate them both with cease-and-desist orders.
3. If they don't (and they won't), file some class-action lawsuits.
4. Profit!!!
Well you may be a 'criminal' in regards to the arbitrary whim of the US law, but how does that matter? We may be all criminals in regards to the constitution of the soviet union or the sacred tribal rules of Atlantis but it doesn't really matter. Being a criminal makes sense only in regards to inalienable rights.
\u262D = \u5350
Everyone tag this article as "not09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0" :)
You mean you weren't alive in the 1780s to help draft the Constitution? Silly me.
If you care to make a point based on something other than semantics (especially when you pull definitions out of your ass) I'd be happy to debate my post. In the meantime, maybe take a high school civics class (if they still have those) to learn what laws are and how it is that you have any 'rights.' If you're up to it, you might read some of John Locke's Second Treatise on Government for some background on 'society' and property rights. Some of his ideas are dated, of course, but if you can get through it you will probably be able to contribute something more intelligible than "Zomg!!111! Copyright is t3h SuXX0rs!!!11 I should be able to copy whatever I want because it's easy!!"
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. - Albert Einstein
"...you can pry it out of my cold, dead fingers!"
Someone here has a lot of fingers.
Isn't America a wonderful country.
Don't think big think small.
I hereby claim the number 2 (two) and all numbers divisible by 2 (two.)
Now everybody who claims fuck-all divisible by two owes me money.
The DMCA appliies because I SAY so.
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D6 63 0D 70 89 81 BB 8E 7B 7C 5F 5D 54 EA AB 73
Maybe I can make the line for a 192-bit or 256-bit integer?
Get off my launchpad!
I now own 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375 105820974944592...
I wrote a script of their script. I now own any number bewteen 0 and any 1000 digit number. Pwnz0r!
Actually, this is a good idea. If there is any future "copyright" on a number, I can claim previous copyright of that number, preventing those future idiotic uses.
Using this idea, I now release all numbers that I've created and henceforth copyrighted under the GPL v2.0 license.
Chip on your shoulder?
Don't you have a book burning to go to or something?
Try not to take me more seriously than I take myself.
00000000000000000000000000000001
Now all I have to do is catch some rich guy pointing at someone, then sue him for distributing my copyrighted number.
I thought 'being a criminal' involved getting caught and convicted.
Silly me.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C088 oh wait.
One person's inconvenience is another's erosion of freedom. Whether I close my eyes, and sing la-la-la to myself, I still have to WAIT until 10 minutes of stupid trailers are done on my DVD. I can't fast forward and years later when the trailers are absolutely outdated and ridiculous, I'm still forced to wait. Maybe a mere inconvenience to you, but not so to me. But then again, some people are more submissive then others.
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Haiku? I should encrypt
I'm
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I'm a person, not a number
(forgive my lossy translation from the Spanish version......)
Ha. You've made two mistakes:
One is assuming that the government doesn't already have a data-mining chip in your car with built-in GPS leeching off your battery to, say, report you've been a naughty boy to other chips installed in every traffic light. Actually, think of RFID.
The second is, posting that on slashdot. Just like usenet, it could come back to bite you when we start pursuing you for that. Laws ain't too far off from just tightening the noose around your throat, and the technology I mention isn't as sci-fi-ish now as it was 30 years ago. We now have RFID, GPS, in-car CPU's, wireless cells / meshes. Uncle sam probably has their secret networks based on that tech too. I say, please watch where you choose to say what you know.
Everyone knows about Bush's drug use, and the Swartzenegger smoke-out video. Their being in power instead of jail just means that our laws are pretty liberally ignored. Things change. Bubbles burst when people stop looking the other way, the way American slavery suddenly became an issue, and so did black liberties. All of a sudden, boom! Jailtime. Any decade now, they'll amend the American constitution to come after you full force for previous misdemeanors.
Mine was 44 3D A0 E7 01 2D 80 F1 D3 3B D4 3B 7B F2 23 8C, but I changed it to
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 02 03 04 05 so that I didn't have to memorize another number. It should still work, right?
If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
Maybe. But it definitely is the same as the decimal number 84084977912577888508934728179011456752.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
I see nothing wrong with paying for my own copy of a movie or CD, and putting it on any one my dozen or so players, digitizing it storing it on a server and playing the movies from there. I am against giving copies away. I paid for the movie or song, it is my copy, no reason for anyone else to get a copy for free. If I get bored with it or find that I detest it, I also feel it in my right to destroy all my personal copies and sell the original. Yes I rip my movies and delete all the so call added content that I detest. When I want to watch a movie at home, I turn on my player and play a movie, I do not want to wait 5 minutes for my DVD player to load up all the crap DRM software, play 10 minutes of stupid adverts and trailers before I get to see my movie.
It's already circumvented ... 199805098495798194840401541004515635928
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
if I claim 00000000000000000000000008675309
My mom always said, "Jim, you're 1 in a million." Given the current population, there are 7000 of me. God help us all!
Speeding has no effect either - until you actually hit someone. The risks of speeding are that you'll kill people; the risks of copyright infringement is that artists will starve, Brad Pitt will have to fish food out of bins, etc.
So yes, I think there is an argument that you should go to jail if you speed. There's a lot of processes in place (at least here in Australia) to give you fair change to adapt your behaviour - speeding tickets, loss of license, car confiscation, and finally - if they weren't enough of a deterrent - they throw you in the slammer.
Aside from that though - totally agree
What ever happened to the Popular Front, Reg?
If I have seen further it is by stealing the Intellectual Property of giants.
site got the /. effect
"There's a lot of processes in place (at least here in Australia) to give you fair change to adapt your behaviour - speeding tickets, loss of license, car confiscation, and finally - if they weren't enough of a deterrent - they throw you in the slammer."
Or they completely bypass all that and extradite you to the US.
If I have seen further it is by stealing the Intellectual Property of giants.
If said grits are in my pants, WITH Natlie Portman??
Inquiring minds want to know...
Truth isn't Truth - Guliani
But then, you repeat yourself!
Yes, we get it, you're using the most strict definition of forced. But as the GP pointed out, there is no other option if you want to watch the movie that you paid for. It'd be like having your car play you a Ford commercial before it would let you start your car - that you own. Get it? Yes, nobody "forced" you to drive the car, but there's no choice if you want to use what you purchased. The commercial / preview has no benefit to you, so you should be able to use what you purchased in the manner that you want.
Any absolute still needs a qualifier. Like using "have to" or "has to" - you don't even "have to" breath, as long as living isn't one of your requirements. So stop being a dick and keep the context of the statement in mind.
I think I just fed a troll.
It's not the number - it's the context of the number. Yes, I can use this number for my WEP key. I can print it on my T-shirt, print it on toilet paper and wipe my ass with it. I can do whatever you want with this number so long as I don't identify it as the decryption key for YOUR encrypted data.
Here's another example: A tennis racket. By itself, a tennis racket is made for whacking tennis balls. However, I could whack YOU with the racket, and suddenly its role changes from "sporting equipment" to "deadly weapon". But it's the same piece of equipment, and yes, a tennis racket is a plenty good enough weapon to kill somebody with.
It's not the racket itself that's deadly, it's the context for how its used or presented. There's a world of difference between "I'm going to whack the ball" and "I'm going to whack your balls"...
By publishing this number along with phrases like "decryption key for NNN", you've crossed the line from just some random number to establishing the context of the number as somehow important.
So please, please PLEASE get the point - having and/or publishing a number, any number, isn't illegal. Publishing that this number (instead of the billions/trillions of others like it) is the decryption key for $FOO is what's illegal.
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
so i think I'll just knock you off and burn yours, if a number no longer exists it's as good as mine ?
I just encrypted a movie I made. The decrypter only allows you to play the movie 3 times. As a key it uses any real number that the GNU MP Bignum library can process.
I claim this
What?
I would say that at least 95% of us (just guessing on the number who don't drive and/or come from a country without speed limits) are criminals even if you don't count copyright infringement.
The creator of this post (Jacob Smith) hereby releases it, and all of his other posts, into the public domain.
Of course you should be in jail for willfully, systematically and apparently proudly endangering pedestrians (and, indeed, other drivers).
For using one device rather than another to play a film? That's ridiculous.
So I fail to see your analogy.
Oh, and by the way, imagine how much more annoying it is for the rest of us in Region 1 who get to sit through this stupid message about what the US government thinks is law. What gives the US the right to post US legal messages on TV screens in Canada, playing DVDs bought in Canada on equipment bought in Canada? D'oh! At least we don't see the War on Drugs messges anymore (is the War on Drugs over? Did you guys win?) We need a law that lets us charge the US back for the time wasted by these bizarre, misdirected and politically offensive messages!
One is assuming that the government doesn't already have a data-mining chip ...please watch where you choose to say what you know.
Major problem with your statement: I don't live in the US. I live in a country that enjoys REAL freedom.... in latin america of all places. The government is so inefficient they'll never be able to enslave the masses like the US did.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
It's the secret that that number is the one they are using to encrypt DVDs. Of course they have no ownership over that number, nor are they even claiming to own it. They have no problem with you using it in a program or an equation or in whatever way you want, as long as you use the fact that that number is used to encrypt DVDs.
In Soviet Russia, punchline forgets you!
One man's constant is another man's variable.
ps sorry about the italics, I forgot to turn them off because I'm too drunk...
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
I find it hilarious that the "Re: " prepended to the subject line effectively castrates your 128-bit number into a non-DMCA-protected 124-bit number by default.
Now that the cat is out of the bag, to counter this I am selling 128-bit IDs that I will guarantee to be unique (as in, not already in use) so that you don't risk infringing on somebody else's ID.
I only have a limited supply, so act fast! Yours for only $1 each.
That's my 128-Bit integer, uh-huh. She's a proud beauty, ain't she?
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Why? Why do I need this website to do it? I can easily generate a 128-bit AES Key, encrypt just about anything I have ever written, since US Copyright doesn't require me to register the work. (I do have works published and can be easily traced to me.) So not only would I own the copyright on the work, but I could then load the encrypted version to a website, and charge a fee for the key. If my key were to become known and published online, it would then violate the DMCA, and I would have everything this site offers, but I would be able to also claim copyright privileges to the written works.
Ha! I now own the 128-bit representation of the number 0. Which seems to imply that I own ALL representations of the number 0. No longer may you reference null in any of your programs, no longer may you mathematically express the concept of "nothing." And never again may you call someone a "zero"!
I may have posted as Anonymous Coward, but use my number and you'll find my nice little name at the end of a DMCA notice with your name on it, too!
I sent a DMCA notification letter to digg.com to get them to remove a posting of my number. Let's see who they side with this time.
--Nick
At least I own the capitalized version
Act one in the revolution will be the revocation of all warning labels.
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Congratulations sick_soul, you have won this thread.
in my format, 0 decompresses to Metallica "Unforgiven" and 1 decompresses to Metallica "Nothing Else Matters". so if you distribute the bit 0 or 1, you're distributing copyrighted material. and yer goin to jail and stuff. welcome to America.
Content industry
tries to win tech war with geeks.
Stupid shit-for-brains!
You're using her as bait, Master!
> I go to movies. I pay to go to the movies. Why do I have to sit through a 5 minute sermon on how evil piracy is when I paid to get there? Then again, when I buy a DVD, why the hell should I be FORCED to watch trailers and nowadays even ads? So I rip it, and get my right of choice back.
You have to sit through the sermon because that's the product you bought. If you don't like the product, don't buy it. It's really not that difficult.
Try going into a restaurant, paying for your meal, then taking off your clothes and rubbing the food all over your self. You will find (injustice of injustices!) that the fact that you paid for your meal does not give you free reign. In fact, if you pay attention, you will find that almost every purchase you make comes with some limitations/constraints. The nice thing about capitalism is that, if enough people don't like one version of a product some enterprising individual will offer a service they do like (for instance, naked food rubbing restaurants)
I suggest, if you are unhappy with the movies and DVDs you currently buy, that you but those items from a different vendor, one who doesn't give you sermons and doesn't force trailers on you. Of course, you could also just steal product from the vendors you don't like, and thereby make sure tha tenterprising individuals avoid you lke the plague because you will steal their goods too.
Yay it worked. I got my own number:
66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66
Maybe I'll have it tattoed on my forehead.
And how many cars do you think Ford would sell if their cars did this? And how long until another vendor ate their lunch?
Do you ever wonder, given how many people hate copy protection, why an enterprising studio hasn't sprung up, releasing their movies free of any restraints? Clearly many people would prefer to buy that kind of DVD. In fact, maybe you should start a company doing exactly that! You'd make a mint! All these noble, free spirited consumers just itching to fork over their money for a good, copy protection free DVD. Think of the profits!
[100% ISO 646 Compliant]
SVM, ERGO MONSTRO.
I'm an insensitive clod you insensitive...
oh wait...
You're using her as bait, Master!
Can we start suing each over over these numbers and set some precedents? [Picks a random commentor on this story.] Hay gweihir, wanna meet as adversaries in court?
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
... welcome our new 2A 20 07 BA 26 9F 5C 29 3A E9 30 CB C1 65 69 49 overlord!
Dont piss him off!
No sig for now.
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
D6499626857801B6065013E3645A6B75, it's mine fools!!
WHy not simply make a program that does this to all possible integers and sew anyone who trys to use one of them IE when they come out with a new one of these for future DVD's
The DMCA says something along the lines of not applying to keys if they have "commercially significant uses other than to circumvent" and such.
A 128-bit key is still relatively short compared to..say..the infinite number of decimal digits of an irrational number, such as Pi. Now, being an irrational number, Pi will eventually cycle through every finite length series of digits. So if you convert your # to decimal, it's EVENTUALLY going to be somewhere in pi (or in e or sqrt(2) or any other irrational).
Now, I for one would say Pi and e we've got at least a few "commercially significant uses" by which to invalidate the ownership of these #'s. Or any sequence of #'s if you really wanted to stretch this line of thinking.
More importantly, this is the only reason I've ever been able to justify memorizing digits of Pi. The fact that eventually any finite sequence will be expressed, one could look at Pi in binary and--eventually--come across any series of 1's and 0's of finite length.
Meaning not only every possible encryption key, but all the porn that ever was, is, or will be, is contained in Pi.
Or wont be... *shudders*
C5 A3 AB B2 96 0B DD 97 BE C9 44 3C C4 63 83 1F
Who is this DCMA of whom you speak?
Would she like to join us on the patio for drinks later?
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Suppose the number wins the lottery, but someone else played that number. You could argue that you own that number and that no one else should be allowed to play it and, therefore, you get the whole jackpot. If you forgot to fill out your lottery card that week and the number came up, you could sue to prevent other people from winning.
Hmm...
Dear Sir,
I have reviewed your stated copyright on the number 1 but the "instance method" has been patented together with the number 0. Hereby I ask you to cease and decist breaking our intellectual property. Remove all posts or pay 277 licenses which are $0.33 per instance. You have 13 days to take action.
If not we will send the DMCA police to you and force you to sacrifice your firstborn.
Toodeloo,
Winston, Killumpf and Doofus lawyers inc.
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..
For all of you that oppose the censorship of this number, but are for copyright, I'd like to know how you resolve the following contradiction. ALL information is just a number, and some numbers are larger than others. That DVD movie is really just a long binary number. How large does the number have to be before you can copyright it?
LS
There is a fine line between being a cultivated citizen and being someone else's crop. - A. J. Patrick Liszkie
I'm going to go register "42".
Then I will own the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
Have we figured out the question yet?!?!
Own your own integer...
That's the dumbest fucking idea I've heard since I've been at the Internet.
AACS never tried to claim "copyrights" or "ownership" of this number.
Someone has been misunderstanding the DMCA here, and what's so bad about it.
They don't even need to own the copyrights for the number for it to be protected.
And that is what people should complain about, if anything.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Even better: if you quote it, it becomes a string.
Yes, I am the one with the legendary sig.
isn't that just called an ipv6 address? everyone should be able to have their own?
It's astonishing how many of you fucktards completely missed his joke.
Don't dare to touch it!
woot!
wouldn't this be more interesting if you were to encrypt something with a much shorter number, say 5 or 9, and then to send DCMA notices to 'protect' that number.
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If I paid for the DVD on which the data is encrypted I should unquestionably have access to the tools necessary to decrypt it (for fair use backups, for example) regardless of whether I own the data or not
Ownership of data? I guess you mean either authorship or copyright license. You'd be clumsy to have authorship of some data but not the tools to decrypt that data (but you might well be able to create it again). But as for copyright license, most of my discs have the license "All Rights Reserved", for which you need to convince a court of law that your use of the disc is consistent with the intent of the fair-use provisions. The Cliff Notes commentary of the DMCA text (which is all I've read 'cause I'm no lawyer) consists of the footnote, repeated, "Here, fair-use provisions are eroded." It concludes: "Here, fair-use provisions disappear entirely."
A flawed logic, no less! He must be in Pon farr!!
I'm claiming ownership of 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01. This should make life miserable for everyone!
Unless you were going for a number that was almost but not quite identical to the famous one, this should be F90902119D74E35BD84156C5635688C0.
:/
Ouch. I really need to get that thing out of my head.
I call prior art... using letters (a..z) is a mechanism of encrypting language in of itself...
Each letter encodes a reference to a sound that can be de-crypted if you know "your ABCs"
Some words however obviously use a different encoding method (ie "yatch")
So although ROT-26 might be an approved DMCA cypher, someone else has first dibs on "circumvented their copy protection device"
So, wherez the sourcecode?
*yoink-F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C088*
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"At the same time, you cannot protect numbers. They do not belong to anybody."
Tell that to James Bond.
Actually, let's say it's not rot13, but rather, rot128 -- that is, every byte xor'd against 0x80. (I think, I'm a little fuzzy on binary and hex now.) That should make it nice and universal, symmetric, and something easy enough for everyone to know.
.rot13 extension -- so you're not really revealing your key, but everyone knows what you mean -- and distribute it via P2P.
For safety's sake, the following should be done on an encrypted partition, and you should still shred the files afterwards.
Go take your favorite movie (DVD is easy, but high def if you can), rip it -- doesn't matter much how, raw bits would be especially insulting, but re-encode if you like. Take your shiny new DVD rip, add a note saying "Enjoy! And if anyone from the MPAA is reading, HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR DMCA NOW, YOU CUNTS? IT'S ILLEGAL TO READ THIS, I'LL SEE YOU IN COURT!!"
Zip/rar it all up, so it's one file, to make it simple, and run that one file through rot0x80. Save the shiny new crypted file on your hard drive somewhere, maybe give it a
Now, if everyone takes equal care when playing the movie -- and I imagine we could add rot0x80 support to mplayer/vlc, if you only did it on the media file itself -- then while I am not a laywer, I don't see how they could legally get any kind of conviction against you. Simply don't put the "key" in the players, and require the person to input it every time they play -- then, you can claim you didn't know (since the file was legal to redistribute, just not legal to open), and if they accuse you of piracy, you can immediately turn it around and accuse them of DMCA violations.
Not really an original idea, mind you. I can't point to the person who first used it to encrypt The Number, thus making it illegal for the MPAA to stop its spread. But the point here is, legally, I don't see a way out of this unless they subpeona (which is why all the disk encryption), and you can get around that easily enough -- simply use a temporary partition/filesystem, and throw away the key when you're done with that particular disc. In fact, leave the machine on and generate a random number, so you can truthfully say that you never did know the key, meaning they have absolutely no evidence you did something wrong, except the glaringly obvious bit that they're not allowed to use.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
The following are my 200 128-bit numbers. Please make sure you never ever violate my rights by posting/using them. If you do, I will sue.
89 54 FF 42 1D 07 2D 0C ED F4 62 DE 49 28 3F DB - 10 1D 5F F8 5C 77 3B EA F5 C6 30 89 EB CE 5F B0
69 6F 36 06 49 A8 80 C2 4B 32 ED 09 AF 18 61 EB - CB CE 30 D0 CE 11 AA F4 03 C6 6B 77 A6 41 FD 7D
7C 69 C5 C9 53 82 D4 8F E3 C2 3B BD 73 68 AB 3E - DF 03 02 21 DE 36 35 BB 9A 8E 8A 03 09 2F 88 43
E7 BB A1 6D E4 CA AC BB B1 D1 73 E2 29 D8 44 7D - 63 3A B8 05 1D 81 66 28 50 2C E5 F8 D4 B3 29 FE
52 B5 EE 9C 0A 81 AF 45 39 36 E8 62 08 79 F5 91 - A8 F3 F8 B9 A0 F1 FC DF C3 F0 62 01 6D C8 9E 2F
23 87 3A 6B 88 85 25 AA 60 48 6C 2C ED 50 BE CE - E1 1A D7 14 49 40 02 A0 EA 96 F2 BF D0 A1 6C 75
7A 1D 1D 7A 30 B1 57 42 6F C5 AF 70 DE 84 CB D7 - 50 F4 84 D0 6B E5 0F 02 E9 5D FF E8 5D 73 DC B4
74 23 60 3D BC 82 EF 39 3C 7F CE 74 4C 5E 1A 9C - 62 7C 4D D7 51 B2 01 89 75 82 43 7C 5D 3C F9 9B
15 D5 C2 83 E8 5E B7 F4 09 2C 62 44 EF 69 F8 F7 - 21 F0 29 10 8E B0 90 13 03 70 DF EF FE F7 5D 66
15 E9 06 5C 42 F1 99 E0 1D D4 60 0E F9 1C FE 2E - 9B 62 B3 56 7D 4C 8A 7F EB 7F BB 8F 9E 16 C7 C4
49 1D FE 62 53 EA 16 47 86 9D 6C 44 3D 9B 10 3B - F5 82 0E 85 75 CD 23 A6 AE 06 58 65 20 50 C6 F6
F7 B3 B5 00 46 C7 4E 7A 29 19 5F 5F 49 DC F5 D9 - 06 24 F1 A1 70 2E 7F AA 93 2A CF 7C 9E 88 6E 3C
69 F2 29 02 FE AD 48 96 98 CD 26 8D 42 65 35 EA - E0 1F A8 02 EC C6 41 F5 E3 CF 7D 7A 30 67 23 5D
F0 C5 FF 0D 15 90 5B E3 F5 F4 B5 9A 6A E6 F0 73 - 76 4D 4D A5 80 9B 63 76 97 D1 0D 52 15 03 58 52
33 F0 D0 2A 96 BB 34 FD 23 2D A7 B2 74 EA 33 7A - 2E 62 80 F6 0F C5 0F 6D 78 80 7B 4D AF DD D3 AB
92 C0 AF 22 0E B9 E0 23 4C 20 12 04 06 E6 82 47 - 41 DC 53 A7 BA 32 B0 3E 97 38 E7 91 8E F1 37 62
05 66 1F CE 01 EB 71 AF B5 18 33 0A 82 3F 14 BE - D0 DF 03 CA 22 AA 26 CB 2F 6B 3C 3C EC 0F 2C 54
37 A4 F1 53 1B 98 85 6C B6 29 AD B1 75 1C 7D 5E - E7 1D FE E4 21 88 B6 3B 48 7F 43 21 68 74 05 96
8E 09 0A 00 8A 1E D8 34 EB F7 E2 6D 4A 2B ED 68 - 00 15 28 25 35 86 30 1B 53 5C 31 76 F6 75 4C 97
0A 56 C4 60 9A 02 D1 02 15 2F 3B 90 7E DD 3B 29 - B0 55 C8 CC 56 13 F6 E9 9D D1 D5 D2 1F 31 8E 4E
CF 1B 0B CB E2 3F A2 E4 7D C6 D2 E2 CC B5 DA 63 - 43 DC 14 5C 28 0A C3 33 34 DB DB EB F6 F9 58 E2
13 0F C4 79 9D 5D AD A2 68 77 C2 6C D0 4D FF 87 - 6A 27 31 6F 04 AD 98 03 20 F2 88 D0 B3 47 FD C5
1B D3 81 8E E1 86 B8 F2 AB 81 E2 55 92 AB D1 B7 - 54 05 30 35 28 6B 37 9B 64 0F FE 94 7E 4A 7A 35
9E 44 AD 32 0D 1F F1 33 DA 2A 7D AE 22 94 83 5B - C8 C5 2A 4A D4 98 31 00 40 1E 55 1E 00 53 EC 03
D3 2A 0D 33 93 33 78 CF F6 A6 8E A0 02 E0 4A 63 - 0D C7 60 DF 36 2D 7B CF AF 22 B0 1C 13 D9 C4 1A
05 5B 5C EC 33 3F DE 3F 2D 36 AE ED E2 65 71 2E - 03 06 E0 91 38 E4 33 9E D3 4D 7B DE 1D 59 58 C6
27 0D CF 8B 6B 39 4A BD A3 41 B8 B3 B6 90 2F 0F - 53 6B B2 E6 2D 9A 28 5C 9D 34 3D 85 49 54 68 60
EE 44 24 DD 77 56 4B B6 56 9D AD D2 B6 6F 27 B3 - 99 39 0F FA 06 75 D7 3D 51 FB C9 5C 06 E6 86 11
DF 2A F9 1A F2 47 1F 6C 39 75 B6 28 8F 9F AA A1 - 5C 10 F9 C8 1C 71 83 3D 51 0A 39 2A 11 19 8D 64
73 9A 01 0F 63 6A D1 BB 3F 64 D9 AB 0A FB AC 46 - 80 FA B3 51 57 66 60 80 55 35 94 E3 23 FB C7 69
E8 FA C5 8E C4 42 AC A5 C0 D6 5A 92 D9 C2 86 9F - EF 7E C2 C8 99 83 43 5D 0B BA 95 02 47 A9 66 BE
8E 34 8A 3A E2 D1 F9 8C A7 95 55 CC 45 11 9A 2A - 53 EF D0 5A 0C A2 E4 DB 55 35 AA 32 85 FF 9E C1
CE 9F F0 5C 9B 8C C2 72 F9 86 C4 D1 91 1E B2 EB - 97 DA C7 57 ED 28 1C 18 D9 99 30 9A 41 B4 49 FE
28 E2 CB EA A1 45 33 D2 F2 EC 20 22 FC A5 9E 71 - 57 35 6F 88 84 FA F4 A5 FD B7 D2 00 68 34 BD E8
DF 67 61 E4 A9 E0 03 38 19 4C 7A 6A 22 1E 0D BA - 17 1D 2B 42 C1 F2 31 AB 16 6D 1E CA E0 DE EC 86
FC 61 4D 4E 7E DA 67 5F AB 91 06 40 9A 4D 1C 55 - 02 65 09 3B 8B B9 B1 42 BD A4 FF AA 98 6E 80 EB
ED 73 65 5B 01 42 7D 0F B9 FA 2A FF 2F F2 2B 56 - 4D 44 A1 F5 B3 D1 82 B6 14 A5 5D 75 2C 36 86 25
3B BB 71 E1 09 A5 83 43 AA 3D E0 FC 69 23 83 E4 - 5D 1F 4C A4 8D F3 E5 F0 AE 1C 33 D1 16 4B 38 91
7E 5D 8B 97 FD 3A B7 2B 46 C7 C2 0F
Jake M. Brown woke up early in the morning, the time was 07:14 and the year was 2076.
He went into his living room to watch some movies on his HD-GRD player which he had bought at the Moolo Supermarket, the encryption key for processing the HD-GRD disc was 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0, and that is what he used to decrypt his HD-GRD disc.
What if I distribute a very simple jigsaw puzzle, with two pieces. One has 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0, and the other says "Processing key for AACS". All one has to do is put the pieces together, but I don't include the instructions.
Does that mean that it's perfectly legal to distribute said puzzle, but not legal for people to put it together?
Couldn't you do similar things all over the place? For instance, in the first paragraph of this post, I had The Number, and I had What It Is, but I never said or implied that the two go together in any way. But I mean, what about the front/back of a T-Shirt?
It's an old-ish legal hack. For instance, the GPL was meant to prevent things like the nvidia drivers currently in my kernel. However, nvidia was free to develop these drivers in-house, so long as they didn't distribute modified binaries. And they were free to distribute their own patches, so long as the actual patching/compilation is done on my machine, so that the modified source/binary is never actually distributed (and thus never comes under the GPL).
So, does that work here? Simply distribute the number, and enough hints as to what it is, but require people to figure it out on their own, even if a blind person could see it?
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
I thought the whole thing was that it was a 128 bit prime, because factoring out smaller numbers reduced the effectiveness of the cipher. Wouldn't it therefore be more interesting to find 128 bit primes? Certainly it would be possible to publish a list of all prime numbers with 16 and fewer digits, even if the computational power required to do so would be high.
Did I say software? It amazes me how people focus solely on software when arguing against copyright, although they don't restrict they're arguments just to software but want to eliminate all copyrights.
Software is a special case because, like Red Hat, you can sell service. What's the profit model for a novelist or singer? You spend months or years writing a book, then what? Publishing houses would be out of business or only sell books at cost, paying the author nothing because (1) they can just take what the author wrote, and (2) if they bothered paying, they'd be at a competitive disadvantage to the other publishing houses that can now take that work without having paid anything. That leaves putting it online and asking for donations. You know why we don't see anyone doing that already (except for low-quality, unpublishable material)? It's because doesn't work; my point was that there would be no such thing as professional artists, only hobbyists, because there would be no way to support yourself through your work and therefore you cannot devote all of your time to it.
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. - Albert Einstein
I go to movies. I pay to go to the movies. Why do I have to sit through a 5 minute sermon on how evil piracy is when I paid to get there?
Why? Because you paid for it! "Pirated" copies of the movies are often unencumbered and have this crud removed (unless the guys doing the ripping kept it in for laughs)...
If you keep feeding the beast, the beast will keep growing... All this MAFIAA circus that's going on is being paid in full by paying consumers. Every time you go to a movie, or buy a DVD, or a song etc...; a small amount of your money gets diverted to sue 14 years olds or penniless grannies, and a bigger amount of that to keep feeding the same politicians who brought you DMCA/WIPO-like laws with more and worse of the same already in the pipeline.
cpghost at Cordula's Web.
I guess they ran out of 128 bit numbers. :-/
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte
Can't we say?
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C1
minus ONE.
B0 BA FE 77 DE AD C0 DE DE AD CA FE BA BE 58 17
...in his essay Anarchism Triumphant. I remember when I first read it sniggering at all the hooplah about numbers that could be copyrighted. But he was right after all:
Like everything else in the digital world, music as seen by a CD player is mere numeric information; a particular recording of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony recorded by Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorale is (to drop a few insignificant digits) 1276749873424, while Glenn Gould's peculiarly perverse last recording of the Goldberg Variations is (similarly rather truncated) 767459083268.
Oddly enough, these two numbers are "copyrighted." This means, supposedly, that you can't possess another copy of these numbers, once fixed in any physical form, unless you have licensed them. And you can't turn 767459083268 into 2347895697 for your friends (thus correcting Gould's ridiculous judgment about tempi) without making a "derivative work," for which a license is necessary.
At the same time, a similar optical storage disk contains another number, let us call it 7537489532. This one is an algorithm for linear programming of large systems with multiple constraints, useful for example if you want to make optimal use of your rolling stock in running a freight railroad. This number (in the U.S.) is "patented," which means you cannot derive 7537489532 for yourself, or otherwise "practice the art" of the patent with respect to solving linear programming problems no matter how you came by the idea, including finding it out for yourself, unless you have a license from the number's owner.
Then there's 9892454959483. This one is the source code for Microsoft Word. In addition to being "copyrighted," this one is a trade secret. That means if you take this number from Microsoft and give it to anyone else you can be punished.
Lastly, there's 588832161316. It doesn't do anything, it's just the square of 767354. As far as I know, it isn't owned by anybody under any of these rubrics. Yet.
--- Hot Shot City is particularly good.
If I super encrypt my data by using ROT-13 twice then that's a valid encryption technique, yes? Coincidentally this is functionally identical to ROT-26. So then it IS covered under the DMCA, right?
Actually, when you stop to consider it, given that everything in digital form is ultimately a number-- if everyone gets busy and registers those numbers, sooner or later ANYTHING the RIAA or MPAA attempts to communicate will be in violation of the DMCA since it will ultimately be contained within some combination of integers owned by vigilant slashdotters... So hurry up, get those numbers registered! Put an END to the RIAA and MPAA. Finally the hour is at hand-- we have the power, and we're pissed off enough to weild it...
One integer to RULE THEM ALL!!!
(Oh yeah, obligatory: Fuck the RIAA)
I've got it. My very own Integer! 6F 0C 17 78 B1 20 EB 33 00 35 9E 61 81 C8 17 7D If I run it through a heavy decryption protocol and my processor heats up it changes to: One integer to encrypt is all, One integer to protect them, One integer to decrypt again, And in the courtroom sew them
The numbers, they're cursed.
04 08 15 16 23 42 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ABC, come and get them. They are mine now.
Mine!
If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?
deadbeefb100d1sbadf00d4acafebabe
No problem: Encrypt something in a way that any key with a given number of one-bits will work in decrypting it (for example, the first step of the algorithm is counting the one-bits in the key, and the rest only depends of that number). Now you only need 129 encrypted texts to cover the whole range of 128-bit keys. Note that you can simply take one text and encrypt it 129 times. I'd suggest as encryption method to add the number of ones in the key to every byte of the text to encrypt. As additional security matter, the bytes are xored with 0xff before the adding occurs (this also ensures that even the key 0 will alter the text).
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
1302FFF4 - 79AC1849 - 769A7B62 - 0A3BB81D - 6448FFC8 - 6FBB4B00 - 59AF5D56 - 4F058A1F - 6448FFC2 - 61B71843 - 79803E6A - 1827EB5E - 2A02FFEF - 61AD16 (ciphertext)
4467DF9B - 0EC23820 - 18EE1E05 - 6F49CB31 - 4467DF9B - 0EC23820 - 18EE1E05 - 6F49CB31 - 4467DF9B - 0EC23820 - 18EE1E05 - 6F49CB31 - 4467DF9B - 0EC238 (key)
5765204F - 776E2069 - 6E746567 - 6572732C - 202F2053 - 61797320 - 41414353 - 204C412E - 202F2059 - 6F752063 - 616E206F - 776E206F - 6E652074 - 6F6F2E (ascii hex)
We[SP]o - wn[SP]i - nteg - ers, - [SP]/[SP]S - ays[SP] - AACS - [SP]LA. - [SP]/[SP]Y - ou[SP]c - an[SP]o - wn[SP]o - ne[SP]t - oo.
Note that the line breaks of the poem (haiku copyright 2007 by Edward W. Felten) are encoded by a space-slash-space, rather than some manner of CR/LF combination.
//Information does not want to be free; it wants to breed.
This article is now in violation of the DMCA.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
I hereby copyright the number 42. now I own the answer to life, the uiverse and everything
A Smith & Wesson beats four aces -- Murphy's Law of Poker
Now, I can send takedown notices to everybody who posts pi. No, that'd be Nintendo's job. "Wii" is a trademark of Nintendo.
Do you ever wonder, given how many people hate copy protection, why an enterprising studio hasn't sprung up, releasing their movies free of any restraints? Clearly many people would prefer to buy that kind of DVD. In fact, maybe you should start a company doing exactly that! You'd make a mint! All these noble, free spirited consumers just itching to fork over their money for a good, copy protection free DVD. Think of the profits!
Um, gee, could it be because the entertainment industry owns the means of production, owns the distribution channels, and is a cartel? If you operate outside the MPAA...have fun getting on store shelves or in movie theaters. Or even a rating.
Your question is rather akin to asking 'If everyone thinks the speed limits are too low, then why hasn't a competing set of roads sprung up?'. Well, a) that would be very difficult to set up, and b) they're not needed because everyone can violate the speed limit with impunity.
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
I'm copyrighting the number -273.15
They complain that the secret number is a "component or part thereof that is primarily designed, produced, or marketed for the purpose of circumventing"
If the secret number is a part of the circumvention system, any part of the secret number is also a part of the circumvention system.
Therefore, *all* numbers (and letters) which are part of the secret number are also covered as being a "component or part
My secret number is (0-9) and (A-F, a-f)
All your numbers belong to me...
Sear oh Nein? F Nein Won won sear oh two nein Dee. Sven for E-tree; Fife be Dee Ate. For Won? Fife syx see fife, Syx tree fife syx. Eite ate see sear oh!
My only question now is, should I use that as a boy's name or a girl's name... *** ducks flying kitchen crockery projectile from loving wife *** CRB
Let me introduce you to my very own DMCA-protected encryption key: BC 1B 64 4A 8D DE 49 E8 C3 7D CC EE 1A AD EE
I actually think context matters.
A number should only be copyrighted when the context helps to use the number.
DMCA takedown notices should be void if there is only the number presented, without context that allows to understand and use it as a circumvention device..
Hey don't blame me, IANAB
Hahaha, beautiful!
I'd mod you up if I could.
"The amount of intelligence on this planet is a constant. The population is growing." -Cole's Axiom
09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63 - this is how my encrypted haiku comes out - same as..
what a coincidence. Sorry! Guess we'll have the share that baby
Is that a bad thing?? =)
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
...and issuing a license agreement to use it. I think I'll prohibit the truncation of any leading 00s, or casting, or anything else via license agreement. Screw unicode etc, I'll teach you the meaning of "multibyte".
And also 0x0...3A2D28. Then I'm gonna sue Despair.com, along with every AOL user on the planet. Especially since Despair is selling these circumvention devices. Skylarov got off easy.
And you know, it seems to me that Metallica CDs might be trafficking my number, stegged in some of their music files (no doubt in an illegal 8 or 16 bit format). I'm gonna have to take them down.
(end of joke)
Back to reality, it makes me wonder... what if someone trademarked that AACS number? Heh.
help me i've cloned myself and can't remember which one I am
Not only didn't I help draft it, I never agreed to it. Take a second and try to figure who devised what should be taught in those "civics classes". ZOMG1111!!one!!! the government. You might want to take a step back from those and realize rights are natural, not "granted" by the government or the constitution. I read Locke, now you may want to read Spooner, you might be able to understand that my contribution entails more than "copytheft$ sux00rz"
\u262D = \u5350
Why not encrypt something using the IP address values of the AACS site? It's not a 128 bit number, but you could then send a C&D to get the number pulled from the DNS servers...
07 07 E1 0D 14 B3 C5 58 30 7A 9E 1A 3F 62 F1 EE 27 1A B5 DC A1 E9
Still a bit big. With a variation that ignores case...
84 F0 E1 74 AD 60 48 E2 E8 95 9A 3E 63 E1 FB C7 07
Alas, still 17 bytes. Let's strip spaces as well. Ahah! 15 bytes! So, finally:
00 AD AB 1F 6B E6 08 CC 5A C8 41 05 28 37 C6 70
My key. MINE!
"Hello, world". "Hello, Jerry"
I see. No point trying to argue with someone who believes anarchy is a workable philosophy. I wasted both of our time. HAND
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. - Albert Einstein
Funnily Hans Herman Hoppe made the point that only anarchists can coherently argue :)
However since you decided not arguing with me it must mean that
a) You believe anarchists are not able to respect the rules of presenting coherent arguments in a discussion, will be dishonest, or try to use force on you => I won't do that
b) You believe anarchism is so flawed it should be obvious that is pointless arguing against it => in that case there is probably an "obvious" argument you can oppose anarchism that will close the debate.
\u262D = \u5350
I can choose not to disclose that information, I can choose to disclose that information under a NDA although only the initial discloser will be liable then since he is the only one bound by contract.
\u262D = \u5350
8D 16 F3 5B C4 54 DE 34 1D 2F 5A D9 5F 0C 92 D5
Not at all; my last post was pointlessly antagonistic, and I apologize for that.
We are too far apart in our beliefs and our views on the nature of man. As an aside, your view is probably much more optimistic than mine, because the way I understand it functional anarchy requires individuals to respect one another's rights and independence. Based on what I believe to be human nature, I believe that any anarchistic society would either degenerate into Lord of the Flies savagery or else would evolve some form of governance and no longer be anarchistic. (By 'society' here I don't mean any sort of coherent group, just individuals living in unavoidable proximity to one another.)
What I am trying to get at is that arguing about copyrights would by pointless, because there is no common point of reference. I accused you earlier of avoiding the issue by defining society the way you did, but we would be talking at cross purposes unless we did define society . . . and laws, government, the nature of property, rights of man, etc. We could debate any of those issues* but it would probably be months before we could lay enough groundwork to rationally argue something like copyright which depends on so many other, more basic, premises. Without that background, I say copyrights are good and necessary even if not in their present form, you say copyrights aren't a valid concept (or something to that effect), and that's as far as we can get.
*And you probably would win if we debated. One of my undergrad degrees is in history, but in no particular specialty (ranging from pre-history to mid-20th century and covering America, Europe, the middle east, Japan, etc.) and whatever political and general philosophy I picked up was incidental or the result of reading on the side for curiosity. Meaning that you probably know far more about anarchy than I do about any counter-arguments.
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. - Albert Einstein
D6 63 0D 70 89 81 BB 8E 7B 7C 5F 5D 54 EA AB 73
How do you prove it?
I mean, couldn't I claim, for instance, that I only decrypted the DVD to make sure that it really is something they have the copyright to, and that I was allowed to decrypt it to find that much out?
But they've created this perfect catch 22. No matter what the reason (AFAIK), you cannot decrypt a copyrighted work, so I just have to claim it was copyrighted.
So I can simply say that I'm the copyright holder of the super-secret stuff encrypted here. Their only way around is if law enforcement is allowed to break the law (and read the file anyway), but how, exactly, do they get a search warrant for it?
There's an old dillema here, and it revolves around unreasonable searches and seizures. If evidence is gained from an unreasonable search, it's invalid. For instance, if a cop pulls a guy over and searches his trunk without a warrant (or permission), and finds a dead body in there, and arrests the guy and charges him with murder -- easy dismissal. They know about the body because of their own illegal search, so the body may not be used as evidence -- with nothing else, they can't convict him.
The dillema is, you know the guy is guilty, but if you let him be convicted, the cops now know that, even at considerable risk to their own career, they can always do an illegal search and know the guy will be put away. The law as it stands means no cop will EVER do a search without at least getting a warrant, or some sort of Patriot Act protection, because they know it won't work -- you have to do things by the book.
So it comes back to the same thing: you know I'm guilty, but you have no legal way of proving it. Your only real recourse would be downloading it yourself -- in which case, I could simply put in my upload notice that no one should ever download this, ever, meaning the only thing you could legally do is get people for pirating MY stuff (and I can simply choose not to press charges).
I don't know if the law really works this way, and I doubt it does in practice. What I'm hoping is that some judge sees the absurdity of the DMCA and strikes it down, even if I go down with it.
Unfortunately, I neither have the balls nor the resources to do this myself. (I don't actually have access to any DVDs not already on P2P networks anyway.)
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
Your doctor agrees not to disclose the information. If he releases your information (or you find someone has it) you can sue him for breach of contract. The **AA can't simply do that because only the guys ripping and sharing CDs are liable, the people copying from the copier don't infringe on anybody's rights.
\u262D = \u5350
Apology accepted.
... there's little point in arguing for copyright law when the law is doomed to fail.
)
What do you know about my opinion on the nature of man? Morality, natural law, requires that rights be respected, this is always true, in a statist society or in an anarchist one. The important question is: by what mean are those rights to be enforced. The statist construct offers the idea of a geographical monopoly of law enforcement, I myself reject the morality of such a monopoly and its efficiency. I strive to derive my conclusions from a few trivial axiomatic observations on man's nature. If you are suspicious about the morality of some men, as you should, why would you advocate putting men in power? Power corrupts and only effective check and balances can provide a truly free society. It is my opinion that anarchy offer better check and balances than constitutional democracy by granting the legitimate right to ignore the state.
Lord of the flies doesn't deal with men but children. You'll notice that them having a state don't do them any real good.
One problem with copyrights (after legitimacy) is that their infringement is a consensual crime. When a theft, a rape is perpetuated, the victim is generally going to complain... however, if I share a music file with someone, we are both happy with this, the producer doesn't know about it, he cannot report the transaction. There is no effective way to enforce copyrights - this is more obvious every day -
Since you describe yourself as a geek of jurisprudence and you seem to care about the constitution, I think you will highly enjoy Spooner's "The constitution of no authority" (http://www.lysanderspooner.org/notreason.htm#no6
\u262D = \u5350
128 is too much, 1 is enough.
Some of those random 128-bit numbers are random 128 bit numbers like 20 22 93 19 66, 81 89 95 66 00. Even the crudest search shows the MPAA is broadcasting those top secret encryption keys all over the world - such as on their contact us web page - under the flimsy pretense that they're phone numbers. The true owners of those numbers should use DMCA takedown notices to shut down the MPAA's web sites. And their members' web sites. And their lawyers' web sites. And their offices. And demand they redact all those publications. And all that media. Oh, the humanity! And the business cards. Won't someone think of the business cards?