DVD decryption and perl

[Joel Meulenberg]

Hehe, thx for the ref's.

An intriguing DeCSS collector's item was just mentioned on Slashdot.

Get this:  A 1401-digit *prime number* for which the hexadecimal
representation is a *gzip bytestream* which, when unzipped, yields the
C source code for an implementation of DeCSS!

An "illegal prime number"??   : )

Perhaps the mathematical universe is trying to say something to us?  :
)

--- Steve Poling <sdpoling at home.com> wrote:
> i particularly liked the DeCSS algorithm description rendered as epic
> verse
> with a haiku metrical structure.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-grand-rapids-pm-list at pm.org
> > [mailto:owner-grand-rapids-pm-list at pm.org]On Behalf Of Steve
> Johnson
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 11:01 PM
> > To: grand-rapids-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org
> > Subject: DVD decryption and perl
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I stumbled onto this site http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/
> on the
> > way to somewhere else.  It has an interesting discussion of the
> issues
> > around DVD decryption triggered by a preliminary injunction in
> Universal
> > City Studios et al. v. Reimerdes et al., prohibiting the defendants
> from
> > distributing computer code for reading encrypted DVDs.
> >
> > Since the pm group enjoys the bits, I thought perhaps this bit fit.
> >
> > I especially liked the conflicting court rulings that code is not
> free
> > speech, but text is (now if I use NOTEPAD to create my c code, and
> NOTEPAD
> > is a text editor, that means my c is text and thus free speech
> > protected?).
> >
> > To that end, the site has included DeCSS et al on permanent
> display.  You
> > can see/hear the decrypt code in C, perl (about 500 bytes),
> dramatic
> > readings of source code, the ascii code encoded as a midi file,
> english (a
> > guy wrote a C to english/english to C translator), gif images,
> > compilerless
> > programming language versions, T shirts, and my personal favorite,
> haiku.
> >
> > Regards,
> > sj
> >
> 
> 
> 


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. 
http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/