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Isn't there a 1st-amendment exception for code? The code isn't violating any copyright.
by em3rgent0rdr 6y ago
Isn't there a 1st-amendment exception for code? The code isn't violating any copyright.
- Nextgrid 6y agoI remember books (with the code inside) being used as a workaround for cryptography export controls. I wonder if the same could apply here (if this notice holds up to begin with), either as a book with code, or as a book with instructions in English language that are equivalent to what the code does.
- _underfl0w_ 6y agoThis is a very underrated workaround. I had no idea this was used.
- em3rgent0rdr 6y agoA book. Or any other medium of expression protected by 1st amendment, such as t-shirt [1], poetry [2], music [3]. And more broadly, any way of encoding a number in an artform via steganography [4]. [1] https://www.wired.com/2000/08/court-to-address-decss-t-shirt/ https://www.wired.com/2000/08/court-to-address-decss-t-shirt... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS_haiku https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS_haiku [3] https://www.gamedev.net/forums/topic/138581-decss-midi/ https://www.gamedev.net/forums/topic/138581-decss-midi/ [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
- kzrdude 6y agoIn particular, the website has been taken down as well. If not the code, then at least that, should be a free speech violation; DMCA should not be used to silence websites (even if the code is taken down!)