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It's just a string of characters.
by zapdrive 3y ago
It's just a string of characters.
- Xorlev 3y agoSoftware, movies, music is just a string of bits. Using something leaked always carries some inherent risk.
- realusername 3y agoThe difference is that software and music are made by authors unlike keys, that's what makes them copyrightable
- brookst 3y agoSo are bomb threats and false advertising. I don't think "it's just characters" is a one-simple-trick.
- ok123456 3y agoyou make a mathematical formula that generates the key.
- evancox100 3y agoGood luck with that argument! "Your honor, I wasn't copying that movie. You see, I applied a mathematical formula to the .zip file, and it just happened to produce the movie as output. Coincidence!" (That's not to say the key is copyrightable, it's not. I think the relevant law would be the DMCA anti-circumvention provision.)
- brookst 3y ago"I didn't distribute the movie, just a file that XOR'd every byte with 255!" Technical people tend to see the law as a technical thing, where technical arguments will win. Courts are generally unamused, since every judge has years of experience with defendants who think that they've discovered one simple trick.