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user-inactivated  ·  4192 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Illegal Numbers - Numberphile

Back when everyone was trying to use illegal primes as a reductio argument against IP, Matthew Skala came up with a clever analogy for what's going on here from a legal perspective. It doesn't make the law look any less absurd, but it does provide a good illustration of why that kind of argument isn't going to win.