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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!"
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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