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Re:Ninth Circuit Goes a Step Further to Protect Privacy in B... by Cogito on Sunday August 25, 2019 @07:31AM (#20792389)
Well, there are the Illegal Numbers [0]

The most well known is probably 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 which was a decryption key for Blu Ray discs, allowing you to get around DRM technology.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

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Re:Ninth Circuit Goes a Step Further to Protect Privacy in B... by rayiner on Sunday August 25, 2019 @11:33AM (#20793505)
Note that it’s not illegal to possess anti-DRM technology in the same way as it is illegal to possess child porn. The DMCA circumvention provision does not include “possession” as a predicate act for the violation: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201.
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