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That's what this is already, eh? A description of copyrighted data would be the torrent file, which content producers would probably like to argue are infringi

by Cushman 15y ago

That's what this is already, eh? A description of copyrighted data would be the torrent file, which content producers would probably like to argue are infringing. A magnet link is a hash of the torrent file, so it's already two steps removed. Of course, the Pirate Bay magnet dump is itself a torrent, so it's a hash of a hash of a hash of copyrighted data. And that torrent itself has a magnet link: 938802790a385c49307f34cca4c30f80b03df59c is a hash of a hash of a hash of a hash of copyrighted data. (In the MP/RIAA's ideal world, I've just committed criminal copyright infringement with damages reaching into the $billions.) Theoretically, the Pirate Bay dump could include the torrent for the Pirate Bay dump, and be an infinitely recursive description of itself... but that's probably an intractable cryptographic process.

tantalor 15y ago
I can beat that. With a bit of indirection, the URL http://thepiratebay.se http://thepiratebay.se references all of the above.
katovatzschyn 15y ago
And, continuing back from hexadecimal, we have the splendid: 842254760070427756125843951997302119090555319708 in base 10 for the magnet link of the torrent containing the list of magnet links for the pirate bay's torrents. Shall we add to the list of illegal numbers? Perhaps its prime factorization also belongs on that list. 2^2×3^2×23×89×24733×462111028392156064869667382167578133253 Best to include the Roman numeral version of the number, as it's equally illegal. http://i.imgur.com/JROu8.png http://i.imgur.com/JROu8.png It would also be wise to outlaw the URL I've just linked, and perhaps also the combination of letters "JROu8" as they also contain the information in question given proper context. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
- robot_cowboy 15y ago
  So, going back to hex and turning it into a flag just like the Free Speech flag in the wiki link, would that make this image: http://i.imgur.com/OHg3l.png http://i.imgur.com/OHg3l.png the most copyright-infringing flag of all time?
  - Natsu 15y ago
    What will they do if we find a crazy enough way to make, say, the number 5 infringing? And who owns 5, anyhow?
    - bwarp 15y ago
      Even worse, they will make pointers illegal.
radagaisus 15y ago
Ha. I bet one of those hashes is a hex representation of a copyrighted song lyrics
finnw 15y ago
> ... but that's probably an intractable cryptographic process. Not always. Algorithms that append a hash to a file, preserving the same hash, i.e. hash(s) == hash(s ++ hash(s)) http://stackoverflow.com/q/4823680/12048 http://stackoverflow.com/q/4823680/12048 A program that prints (though does not contain) a hash of itself: http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/quine.html http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/quine.html (edited for formatting)

by Cushman 15y ago

tantalor 15y ago

I can beat that. With a bit of indirection, the URL http://thepiratebay.se http://thepiratebay.se references all of the above.

katovatzschyn 15y ago

And, continuing back from hexadecimal, we have the splendid: 842254760070427756125843951997302119090555319708 in base 10 for the magnet link of the torrent containing the list of magnet links for the pirate bay's torrents. Shall we add to the list of illegal numbers? Perhaps its prime factorization also belongs on that list. 2^2×3^2×23×89×24733×462111028392156064869667382167578133253 Best to include the Roman numeral version of the number, as it's equally illegal. http://i.imgur.com/JROu8.png http://i.imgur.com/JROu8.png It would also be wise to outlaw the URL I've just linked, and perhaps also the combination of letters "JROu8" as they also contain the information in question given proper context. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

robot_cowboy 15y ago
So, going back to hex and turning it into a flag just like the Free Speech flag in the wiki link, would that make this image: http://i.imgur.com/OHg3l.png http://i.imgur.com/OHg3l.png the most copyright-infringing flag of all time?
- Natsu 15y ago
  What will they do if we find a crazy enough way to make, say, the number 5 infringing? And who owns 5, anyhow?
  - bwarp 15y ago
    Even worse, they will make pointers illegal.

radagaisus 15y ago

Ha. I bet one of those hashes is a hex representation of a copyrighted song lyrics

finnw 15y ago

> ... but that's probably an intractable cryptographic process. Not always. Algorithms that append a hash to a file, preserving the same hash, i.e. hash(s) == hash(s ++ hash(s)) http://stackoverflow.com/q/4823680/12048 http://stackoverflow.com/q/4823680/12048 A program that prints (though does not contain) a hash of itself: http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/quine.html http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/quine.html (edited for formatting)