alt Hacker NewsXOR is also great for storing copyrighted works without liability.
a = the bits of some song or movie
b = pure noise
Store c = a^b.
Give b to a friend. Throw away a.
Now both you and your friend have a bit vector of pure noise. Together you can produce the copyrighted work. But nobody is liable.
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pjc50 • today at 9:49 AM
Whether people are liable is a question for the courts, and I suspect they simply look through the tech and ask "do you end up with a copy of the work?"
(unless you're an AI company, in which case you can copy the whole internet just fine)
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meindnoch • today at 10:39 AM
Pretty sure the law doesn't care about this XOR trick.
This is the "What Colour are your bits?" argument:
> https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
> https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/24
As these article outline, the legal situation is much more complicated (and unintuitive to people who are used to "computer science thinking").