Dan Mayer's Blog

The state of freedom in this country is scary for many reasons, one in the news lately is that it has become illegal to even print a standard 128 bit number, because that number meant something special to encrypting movies. It was against the DMCA to ever republish it, a company could now own a FREAKING number, and all uses of it. Well since this whole fiasco started some smart people found a way every single person can own a number and therefor make it illegal for any company to use, so go get the "deed" to your own number and eventually there will be no legal 128 number left to ever print under the DMCA.

"the folks at Freedom to Tinker would like to point out that you too can own your own integer. They've set up a script that will generate a random number, encrypt a copyrighted haiku with it, and then deed the number back to you. You won't get a copyright on the number or the haiku, but your number has become an illegal circumvention device under the DMCA, such that anyone subject to US law caught distributing it can be punished under the DMCA's anti-trafficking section..."
Read more about the ridiculous DMCA laws here.