can a random number be subject to a takedown?

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Tue May 1 15:53:32 EDT 2007


A lot of sites have been getting DMCA takedowns for the HD-DVD
processing key that got leaked recently.

My question to the assembled: are cryptographic keys really subject to
DMCA subject to takedown requests? I suspect they are not
copyrightable under the criterion from the phone directory
precedent.

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Perry E. Metzger		perry at piermont.com

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