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hansvmlast Friday at 7:08 AM1 replyview on HN

Just last weekend I developed a faster reed-solomon encoder. I'm looking forward to my jail time when somebody uses it to cheaply and reliably persist bootlegged Disney assets, just because I had the gall to optimize some GF256 math.


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dleeftinklast Friday at 2:53 PM

That is not what I said. It is about signalling risks to developers, not criminalising them. And in terms of encoders, I would say it relates more to digital 'form' than 'content' anyways, the container of a creative work vs the 'creative' (created) work itself.

While both can be misused, to me the latter category seems to afford a far larger set of tertiary/unintended uses.