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

[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.

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!

[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!

[Daengbo]

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

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.

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.

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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.

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: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.

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!

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...

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...

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