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  • From: B <beeline AT mindspring.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: [Fwd: FC: DeCSS haiku and more Motion Picture Association threats]
  • Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 00:47:35 -0500


I thought you'd be interested....

Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> [The letter to the MPA is hilarious, and definitely worth reading.
> Background: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=decss
> --Declan]
>
> **********
>
> From: Dave_Touretzky@[snip]
> To: declan@[snip]
> Subject: DeCSS haiku and MPA threats
> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 03:08:12 -0500
>
> Declan,
>
> Here's something you might want to pass on to your Politechbot readers
> or whatever the successor is to the fight-censorship mailing list.
>
> Some anonymous poet has encoded the entire DeCSS descrambling
> algorithm in haiku form, mixed in with a bit of commentary about
> mathematics, physics, and poetry. And he included all the tables!
> It's quite a nice little piece to read. Let's see the MPAA try to
> censor THIS:
>
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/decss-haiku.txt
>
> I have no idea who the author is; he contacted me through an anonymous
> remailer. Another little piece of news: the MPA sent me a legal threat
> about my web site, and I wrote back to them, asking some very embarassing
> questions. They haven't said a word since:
>
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/mpaa-reply-feb2001.html
>
> -- Dave Touretzky
>
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