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IP: DeCSS haiku and more Motion Picture Association threats
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 18:30:52 -0500
To say this is hilarious is a big understatement djf
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:17:25 -0500 To: politech () politechbot com From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com> [The letter to the MPA is hilarious, and definitely worth reading. Background: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=decss --Declan] ********** From: Dave_Touretzky () cs cmu edu To: declan () well com Subject: DeCSS haiku and MPA threats Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 03:08:12 -0500 Declan, Here's something you might want to pass on to your Politechbot readers or whatever the successor is to the fight-censorship mailing list. Some anonymous poet has encoded the entire DeCSS descrambling algorithm in haiku form, mixed in with a bit of commentary about mathematics, physics, and poetry. And he included all the tables! It's quite a nice little piece to read. Let's see the MPAA try to censor THIS: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/decss-haiku.txt I have no idea who the author is; he contacted me through an anonymous remailer. Another little piece of news: the MPA sent me a legal threat about my web site, and I wrote back to them, asking some very embarassing questions. They haven't said a word since: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/mpaa-reply-feb2001.html -- Dave Touretzky ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if it remains intact. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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