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!"

Comments

5D 09 7F B4 60 B8 FB BD D0 2B 6A A3 F2 F6 AB CA

[WrongSizeGlass]

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!

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 ... or even as a WPA (or WEP) key!

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 ... and don't think I won't. I'm crazy enough to do it. I swear I am. Really.

Re:5D 09 7F B4 60 B8 FB BD D0 2B 6A A3 F2 F6 AB CA

[Sarisar]

I used to live next door to a lady who was called Dee. Oddly enough, her mother was called Dee too!

HAH! I'd like to see you search and find that text! Mwahahahahaha!

Wait... does parent get a reply for this post? Oh shit.

ctrl+a
delete

There, fixed it for me!

Re:5D 09 7F B4 60 B8 FB BD D0 2B 6A A3 F2 F6 AB CA

[StarvingSE]

Sorry, this guy has prior art.... better luck next time.

Oh, and don't try C3 either, that's taken too.

Re:5D 09 7F B4 60 B8 FB BD D0 2B 6A A3 F2 F6 AB CA

[CrazedWalrus]

US courts ruled in the Adobe case that Rot13 was a form of copy protection.

Oddly enough, I believe it can then be argued that ROT-26 is also an encryption device:

1. Rot-13 is an encryption device, assuming your comment is correct.
2. ROT-13 is a simple substitution cypher. Decryption is defined as subtracting 13 characters, wrapping at A, where ROT13 encryption is defined as adding 13 characters, wrapping at Z.
3. By extension, any substitution cypher is a DMCA-approved cypher.
4. ROT-1..infinity follow the same algorithm as ROT-13. They simply aren't symmetrical in the way that ROT-13 happens to be (re-encryption leads to plaintext). The symmetry of ROT-13 is purely coincidental due to the fact that 13 is 1/2 of 26. It is not necessarily an intended function of the cypher. This phenomenon will also exhibit periodically in ROT-26, ROT-39, ROT-52, and all later ROT-type algorithms with a key which is a multiple of 13.
5. ROT-26 is included in the set of ROT-1 through ROT-infinity. Coincidentally, it also exhibits the quirk of symmetry, where re-encryption reveals the plaintext.

Q.E.D. - ROT-26 is an approved DMCA cypher, and can be used to protect copyrighted materials.

This post is copyrighted material which has been encrypted using ROT-26. By reading it, you have circumvented my copy protection device. Please cease and desist immediately.

Re:5D 09 7F B4 60 B8 FB BD D0 2B 6A A3 F2 F6 AB CA

[Cheapy]

You know, since "Please cease and desist immediately" was the last thing in your post, it's kinda hard not to follow those orders.

Re:5D 09 7F B4 60 B8 FB BD D0 2B 6A A3 F2 F6 AB CA

[vagabond_gr]

Sorry, this guy has prior art.... better luck next time.

Yes, but his copyright was registered a long time ago so it has expired. Let alone the fact that it was in a galaxy far, far away so earth law do not apply. However he could sue under the trade federation law.

Re:5D 09 7F B4 60 B8 FB BD D0 2B 6A A3 F2 F6 AB CA

[MillionthMonkey]

Your argument is specious. You cannot copyright a trademark owned by someone else.

I have a different problem. I was trying to seek copyright protection for MY two numbers. I had my lawyer do the standard due diligence routine for numbers- you know, the sum, product, quotient, difference, all that stuff. I don't want a third party coming in and laying claim to my numbers.

So anyway I'm talking to him today, and he starts off with, "well, the good news is, the product, modulo, difference, and quotient all worked out...", and I'm like, whaaa... wait a minute, the good news? What do you mean? And so he says, "well, when you add these two numbers, you end up with this other number that happens to be someone else's property." And I'm like, no way, that sucks! Who? "And," he adds, "if you OR them you get the same thing, and if you XOR them you get the same thing! So that could count as three infringing acts right there."

"But AND was OK?"

"AND is zero, so you're OK with AND."

"What about greatest common denominator?"

"I spoke to them; they were quite reasonable and willing to work something out."

"So it's just the sum/OR/XOR people then?"

"Yeah, basically just them."

Now you can't let yourself get pushed around by corporations like this. They want to control as many numbers as they can, the hell with the rest of us. If you aren't pushy about protecting your number these days you won't know when your number's up. They can bust a man for using his own two damn numbers if they can be converted into one of their numbers in any way. And once a corporation gets a hold of a number, it effectively seizes control of the number multiplied by two, by four, by eight, by sixteen... an infinite amount of numbers are disappearing into the hands of private corporations. We'll all be facing retirement and a number line with no free numbers left until you get to primes with thousands of digits. It isn't right. So I thought about it and called him back, and said, let's stand up to these bastards.

Anyway, to make a long story short, after a long round of mediation and arbitration I got to keep 09-09-01-02-0d-04-03-0b-08-01-06-05-03-06-08-00, but they got to keep 00-f0-10-00-90-70-e0-50-d0-40-50-c0-60-50-80-c0. Figures I got stuck with the one further away from zero.

Re:5D 09 7F B4 60 B8 FB BD D0 2B 6A A3 F2 F6 AB CA

[Anonymous Coward]

I am a member of the animals' group, I can use a computer therefore all animals can use a computer..... I don't think so. So, you are a member of The Animals group? Wow, nice to finally meet you, I'm a big fan of yours! However, to be able to use computers is too much to demand from someone your age.

3F 42 2D 7C AA 69 FA EA 86 DC ED 48 95 F6 8E F0

[Anonymous Coward]

Here is my number... I wonder if its also an AACS key by coincidence :)

ok then

[Anonymous Coward]

I'll see your F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C088 and raise you a F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663D184

Eat it!

[Corpuscavernosa]

5D 09 7F B4 60 B8 FB BD D0 2B 6A A3 F2 F6 AB CA

Ha! You'll never catch me coppahs!

Re:Eat it!

[nattt]

50 AE 9B C2 10 05 0E 52 EB EA 82 B8 FB E7 30 6A

Don't you just love it!

Re:Eat it!

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Corpuscavernosa.

We represent WrongSizeGlass Freedom-To-Tinker Content System Licensing Administrator, WCS LA. WFCS is an integrated set of technological protection measures that controls access to and prevents unauthorized copying of copyrighted Haikus.

It is our understanding that you are providing to the public the above-identified tools and services, and are thereby providing and offering to the public a technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof that is primarily designed, produced, or marketed for the purpose of circumventing the technological protection measures afforded by WFCS (hereafter, the "circumvention offering"). Doing so constitutes a violation of the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the "DMCA"), 17 U.S.C. 1201(a)(2) and 1201(b)(1). Providing or offering the circumvention offering identified above, and any other such offering that is primarily designed or produced to circumvent protection measures, or which has only limited commercial significant purpose other than to circumvent, or which are offered to the public with knowledge that it is for use in circumventing, violates the rights of WCS and any others harmed as well. See 1201(a)(2), 1201(b)(1), and 1203.

In view of the foregoing apparent anti-circumvention violations, we demand that you immediately:

1) remove or cause to be removed the above-specified WFCS circumvention offering and any other circumvention offering which is designed, produced or provided to circumvent WFCS or to assist others in doing so, and/or any links directly thereto, and

2) refrain from posting or causing to be provided any WFCS circumvention offering or from assisting others in doing so, including by direct links thereto, on any website now or at any time in the future.

Failure to do so will subject you to legal liability.

Please confirm to the undersigned in writing no later than noon a week from the above-indicated date that you have complied with these demands. You may reach the undersigned by telephone at [private] or by email at [private]@proskauer.com. WCS LA reserves all further rights and remedies with respect to this matter.

Very truly yours,

[private]
Counsel for WFCS LA

Re:Eat it!

[nbritton]

Give that I've run this script on a quantum computer, all your base are belong to me!

Please send royalty payments to:
128 Infinite Alley.
Fort Meade, MD 20755

Thanks!

Re:Eat it!

[Daengbo]

You mean "All your base 16 are belong to me," don't you?

Re: 3F 42 2D 7C AA 69 FA EA 86 DC ED 48 95 F6 8E F

[Ford Prefect]

Here is my number... I wonder if its also an AACS key by coincidence :)

Mine's 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0. I wonder ... oh. Well, that was unlucky!

We WILL see about that Krabs !!!

[unity100]

"So F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C088 is truly mine now, and you can pry it out of my cold, dead fingers!"

sooooooooo, it has come to this !!!!!

Re:Typical of liberals...

[thryllkill]

"Making fun of the RIAA and the DMCA to justify pirating music. You are all criminals."

Isn't it great?!?!?!?!?!

The answer

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm going to go register "42".

Then I will own the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

Re:Typical of liberals...

[ettlz]

Making fun of the RIAA and the DMCA to justify pirating music. You are all criminals.

Piss off, some of us are communists.

You Fools!

[Anonymous Coward]

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!

Re:I am not a number!

[badboy_tw2002]

Sorry, your post does not fit the 5-7-5 haiku format. Close though!

Kudos to Heavy Metal Jacket

[Anonymous Coward]

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.
--
Oh, drat, I spilled the bean.

MINE

[blhack]

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!

Re:MINE

[LordEd]

Dear Sir,

I have reviewed your stated copyright on the number 277 and find that it conflicts with my copyright on the number 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01. It appears that you have simply violated my copyright 277 times to generate your stated number.

I ask that you immediate cease usage of this number or acquire the appropriate licensing. You will need at least 277 licenses per instance. Licenses are currently $0.11 per 1 instance. You have 11 days to take action.

I claim the number 3

[dfsmith]

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

My key...

[basic0]

Here's my copyrighted key:

"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... :S

96 51 0F ED DF EC 61 18 D5 19 7E E9 74 48 72 D8

[Glothar]

It's mine! Stay away!

Microsoft is Good!
NetBSD is slow!
OpenSource licensing is for idealistic hippies!

Hmm... Let's see now:

1. Make inflammatory statements.
2. ???
3. Profit!!

It seems like the infamous "Step 2" is "Trick slashdotters into including a DMCA DRM Circumvention Scheme in the Subject of their replies.

Excellent...

Re:I am not a number!

[iknowcss]

SirBruce (679714)

Umm ...

Re:Interference

[Reverend528]

even if script seems down.

it worked fine for me. My number is 503.

Go Ahead, Make My Day

[Detritus]

So F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C088 is truly mine now, and you can pry it out of my cold, dead fingers!

Your proposal is acceptable.

I just got...

[Metsys]

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.

Let's see..

[nlitement]

How about 1337? Damn, I'm going to be rich!

i own the answer to everything

[192939495969798999]

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.

Re:i own the answer to everything

[Allocius Reikei]

Since it's hex, you own 66. Now if you owned 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2A on the other hand...

I think I'll take 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01

[YodaYid]

That one should pay off pretty quickly :-)

Re:I think I'll take 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01

[jamesh]

That's my IP address you insensitive clod!

I hereby give you permission to try and hack me on that IP address!

no longer naked and petrified

[joe_bruin]

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.

Re:no longer naked and petrified

[Cheapy]

Hot Grits will get Hot Writs?

Re:Typical of liberals...

[Anonymous Coward]

Piss off, some of us are communists.

You piss off, always the communists ignoring the anarchists.

Re:Typical of liberals...

[huckda]

Information is not a scarce resource

it is where I work.

Re:Typical of liberals...

[TranscendentalAnarch]

"you insensitive clod" would have fit nicely in there.

Re:Interference

[beemishboy]

That's strange... for some reason my number is 404...

503 is mine now, dogs!

[plover]

Woo hoo! I now own the rights to "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable"! Crank up the phone, Maw, we're callin' us a fancy city lawyer and suing ourselfs any site that gets slashdotted!

And if my luck holds out, I'll own "404" next.

I feel dirty

[heinousjay]

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.

Re: 96 51 0F ED DF EC 61 18 D5 19 7E E9 74 48 72 D

[Glothar]

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.

My 128 bit number, to AACS programmers with love

[sick_soul]

fa ce ad ec ad e0 fd ec af c0 ff ee 4b ad co de

Re: 96 51 0F ED DF EC 61 18 D5 19 7E E9 74 48 72 D

[rthille]

What
            damn lamness filter
do
            screwing up my silly
you
            visual slashdot jokes!
mean
            Why are the editors
NetBSD
            such humorless clods?
is
            Wait, was that a
Slow?
            Haiku? I should encrypt
I'm
            It, so that I can enjoy
Posting
            ownership of a 128-bit
This
            number.
From

It!

Re:Typical of liberals...

[zolaar]

In Soviet Russia, punchline forgets you!

Re:Typical of liberals...

[Robber Baron]

I'm an insensitive clod you insensitive...

oh wait...