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Re:Illegal Hashes by thriftwy on Monday November 28, 2022 @06:50PM (#33781625)
If you publish it with some instructions it is illegal, but if you post something with such hash accidentally you have plausible deniability.

Also, try to not infringe where you live.

It's quite simple once you understand the basics of law.

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Re:Illegal Hashes by hoosieree on Monday November 28, 2022 @07:09PM (#33781781) 

    π
...oops, just leaked all the illegal numbers.
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Re:Illegal Hashes by yarg on Monday November 28, 2022 @07:34PM (#33782026)
Has that been proven (or disproven)?

Does every finite string appear in pi?

If it does, it'll be the span parameters that are illegal - and (I'm guessing) generally larger than the value that they're encoding.

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Re:Illegal Hashes by colejohnson66 on Monday November 28, 2022 @08:31PM (#33782511)
It has yet to be proven or disproven: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/216343/does-pi-cont...
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Re:Illegal Hashes by noizejoy on Monday November 28, 2022 @08:15PM (#33782412)
> If you publish it with some instructions it is illegal ...

unless you phrase the instructions as what you're not allowed to do[0][1]

[0] https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/how-wine-bricks-saved-the-u-s...

[1] https://grapecollective.com/articles/prohibitions-grape-bric...

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Re:Illegal Hashes by thriftwy on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @02:33AM (#33784670)
You're at mercy of courts here and that may or may not work.
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