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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by AnthonyMouse on Friday October 17, 2025 @07:56AM (#45615695)
> Obviously the act of circumvention itself qualifies, as does the code in the GitHub repository the post links to, but can you point to any prosecution of someone for a _prose description_ of circumvention (as opposed to actually making code available)?

There used to be some debate about whether a prose description is equivalent to computer code even though there are proofs in information theory that they are. English and C are just two different languages in which you can encode the same information.

But we don't even have to go there anymore. LLMs mean there are now machines that can execute a prose description. Code is speech and speech is code.

Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by crazygringo on Friday October 17, 2025 @10:44AM (#45617362)
This. It all comes down to what is distribution of "technology"?

Sharing a prose description of how to break DRM is very likely going to count as distribution of a technology.

It doesn't matter if the technology is expressed as code, prose, schematics, or whatever.

Now I certainly don't agree with the law itself. But I'm not going to hold out hope for wishful thinking that technology isn't technology if it's written in prose.