[WikiEN-l] (semi-OT) Want to own your own integer?

[Anthony]

On 5/8/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/8/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Don't leave all the fun to Hollywood. Thanks to Ed Felten, you can own
> > an integer too!
> >
> >   http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1155
>
> Let's join in the fun and ignore the fact that the issue had nothing
> to do with "ownership" of any number.
>
Depends.  The DMCA itself doesn't legislate ownership of a number.
But there are an awful lot of people suggesting that it does exactly
that - that any mention or distribution of a certain number, in any
context whatsoever, without permission of the AACS LA, is illegal.

Anthony