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Re:Illegal prime by tshaddox on Monday January 11, 2010 @07:15PM (#1046412)
I don't see how "a reason to distribute it" is necessary. What if I just choose a completely random integer with 2000 digits and host it? I don't have any reason to do so, and it's certainly not illegal. Then someone comes along and generates a program that's equivalent to that number, or some digital media rights developer happens to use that number as a key for encrypting some copyrighted media. Does my original act of hosting suddenly become illegal, because I had no good reason to host the number in the first place?
Re:Illegal prime by yoden on Monday January 11, 2010 @07:52PM (#1046501)
The probability of you doing that without piracy is so vanishingly small as to be irrelevant.