Who remembers DVDs and CSS-DeScramble (DeCSS)?

This one is the best version of distributing that code I've ever "seen" - I still think, this just awesome

Listen all the way through, how dramatic ... there is a point where he really sounds like he's gonna start crying...

#DeCSS #DVD

@[email protected] @killyourfm Had a memory flash a moment ago - DeCSS :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS

#DeCSS #DVD

@p2hang

... and yet Phil Carmody is still free and his prime encoding #DeCSS was published.

Sure, @roboneko, you are right about the fact that a Judge consider actual intention, but as much as he want to praise the most powerful, he still has to follow the Law (at least formally).

And sure, I'm not suggesting to actually do anything illegal.

I'm just arguing that any software (or any content) CAN be encoded as a mathematical constant.

You just have to define it.

Now you say that by defining "mathematical constant" as "a convenient notation to precisely convey a useful meaning", I'm not using the term properly.

Let's assume you are right.

So what's the definition "anyone use"?