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Comment Illegal prime number (Score 1) 813

by jonbnews on Friday August 25, 2006 @03:43PM (#15980934) Attached to: P2P Defendant Destroys Evidence, Case Defaults

This has been an issue for a long time. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime.. It's a (relatively small) prime number that represents the DeCSS source code. By strict interpretation of various laws (DMCA etc) even this wikipedia page is illegal since it provides the number.

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