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A cryptographic key for Blu-Rays. The MPAA used to send out C&Ds and DMCA takedowns left and right to hide this code.
Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have?
Submitted 7 hours ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
howrar@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
I remember when this Streisanded hard on Digg. Good times.
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 1 hour ago
Instructions how to build a nuclear bomb.
They have been so very illegal during the very first years of the internet that the scanning of content by police and 3 letter agencies was invented especially because of that.
Then many people made fun of the fact, for example by putting fake hints into the footers of their e-mails or forum posts, and maybe this was the beginning of all memes.
jbrjake@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
When the first DVD cracking util was released, DeCSS, it violated the DMCA and people were getting sued and threatened with felonies for sharing it. Very quickly people figured out loopholes to make it an archivable creative work, like putting it on tshirts and encoding it as a prime number: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
I had a green DeCSS shirt. It was awesome. I ditched it while coming over the border.
kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
I remember an mp3 going around where a guy turned it into a song, complete with the chorus, “I don’t like the DMCA.”
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Damn, I came to post about the pirate pride flag but you beat me to it
Tramort@programming.dev 7 hours ago
child pornography would fit this description
jrs100000@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
War plans. Classified information in general will cause some trouble, but mostly for the person who leaked it. War plans, on the other hand, will be recovered by any means necessary, up to and including lethal force without warning.
Hugin@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Or accessing it if you have a security clearance. I’m not allowed the look at any of the documents Snowden leaked. Because even though they are easily obtained they have not been declasified. I don’t have a need to know or the necessary SC.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 4 hours ago
"Pornography" was illegal to own. Things like abortion information or anything mentioning homosexuality was pornographic.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
For a while it was illegal to export Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP from the US.
FTP servers in the US removed it for fear of legal action.
So I imported it from a University in Scotland. 😉
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Not just PGP, but any encryption strength above a certain level was considered “munitions” from a legal standpoint. Because of this, finding a windows Ssh client was a PITA for quite a while.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Wait does imply that other encryption is broken since what would it matter if you used encryption greater than something the government allowed you to
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 hours ago
Literally one if the 34 things Trump was convicted of.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
So it’s illegal, but nothing comes of getting convicted. No actual consequences.
Got it.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 hours ago
Only if you have money and/or power, tho. If you’re just some guy, you’re 100℅ fucked.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 5 hours ago
Having info on the heliocentric solar system could land you in a dungeon or worse back in the day.
BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
High level leaks of classified material is the first example that comes to mind. The raw Wikileaks data, for example, was widely accessible and easily found by anyone with a quick search, and yet possessing that material was technically illegal, because it was never declassified.
eightpix@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Julian Assange has something to say about this.
Edward Snowden has something to say about this.
Reality Winner has something to say about this.
Chelsea Manning has something to say about this.
Woodward and Bernstein had something to say about this.
BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
No doubt. It being illegal doesn’t mean it wasn’t morally justified and right in most cases. Just means it took more courage and personal risk to do the right thing.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
You’ve been banned from /r/warthunderforums
TheKracken@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I’d say classified documents if you don’t have the clearance and process to legally possess them
benignintervention@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
In the US it’s illegal to grow poppy if you know what it is
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Only the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. The rest are just fine.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 hours ago
They can’t prove I know what it is tho. 😏
“What do you mean I had to know because I was making heroin? You mean my calming sleepy flower juice from those cool flowers I found?”
krunklom@lemmy.zip 42 minutes ago
You need to use a razor to bleed the poppies for their latex, which is opium.
I’d say if you’re found with poppies that you’ve done this to then there’s a very good chance you knew what you were doing.
Mighty@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
So much. I mean that’s what the book burning was all about. There’s blacklisted authors. There’s state secrets. It might be information that’s legal only for certain people. I mean, if we’re being pedantic, it’s illegal for you to have information about me if I’m not giving it to you.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
KEVIN Birmingham’s new book about the long censorship fight over James Joyce’s Ulysses braids eight or nine good stories into one mighty strand.
It’s about women’s rights and heroic female editors, the First World War, anarchism and modernism, tenderness and syphilis, moral panic and about the Lost Generation and the tent it pitched at Sylvia Beach’s Paris bookstore. It isolates a great love story, that of Joyce and Nora Barnacle, one that comes with a finger-burning side order of some of the most cheerfully filthy correspondence in literary history.
scotsman.com/…/the-battle-to-publish-james-joyces…
And what a quest it was. “Ulysses” was illegal to own in most of the English-speaking world for more than a decade. It was banned, burned, debated, smuggled, and finally legalized following a 1933 court ruling. In Birmingham’s highly readable and erudite book, he infuses this story with drama, reminding us that the right to express oneself can never be taken for granted.
Readers will quickly realize the immense scope of “The Most Dangerous Book.” Modernism, obscenity, the power once held by postal authorities, vice squads, 19th century English law, Joyce’s sex life and health problems, The Lost Generation, early literary magazines, Wall Street lawyers, the suffrage movement, anarchy in America, and even the Enlightenment are all seamlessly woven into this most fascinating tapestry.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 48 seconds ago
Under no circumstances should crabs be taught to read. There are consequences.