Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "非法数字" in Chinese language version.
Maybe I was reading something between the lines that wasn't there, but if arbitrary programs could be expressed as primes, the immediate conclusion is that all programs, including ones some people wished didn't exist, can too. I.e. the so called 'circumvention devices' of which my previous prime exploit was an example.
Illegal Offering of Processing Key to Circumvent AACS Copyright Protection [...] 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 AACS (hereafter, the "circumvention offering"). Doing so constitutes a violation of the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the "DMCA")
The question, of course, is whether an interesting number is illegal merely because it can be used to encode a contraband program.
The bottom line: If distributing code is illegal, and these numbers contain (or are) the code, doesn't that make these number illegal?
What folks often forget is a program (any file actually) is a string of bits (binary digits)—so every program is a number.
Maybe I was reading something between the lines that wasn't there, but if arbitrary programs could be expressed as primes, the immediate conclusion is that all programs, including ones some people wished didn't exist, can too. I.e. the so called 'circumvention devices' of which my previous prime exploit was an example.
The question, of course, is whether an interesting number is illegal merely because it can be used to encode a contraband program.
The bottom line: If distributing code is illegal, and these numbers contain (or are) the code, doesn't that make these number illegal?
Illegal Offering of Processing Key to Circumvent AACS Copyright Protection [...] 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 AACS (hereafter, the "circumvention offering"). Doing so constitutes a violation of the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the "DMCA")
What folks often forget is a program (any file actually) is a string of bits (binary digits)—so every program is a number.
