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+date: 2019-03-16
+---
+>```
+>Muse! When we learned to
+>count, little did we know all
+>the things we could do
+>
+>some day by shuffling
+>those numbers: Pythagoras
+>said "All is number"
+>
+>long before he saw
+>computers and their effects,
+>or what they could do
+>
+>by computation,
+>naive and mechanical
+>fast arithmetic.
+>
+>It changed the world, it
+>changed our consciousness and lives
+>to have such fast math
+>
+>available to
+>us and anyone who cared
+>to learn programming.
+>
+>Now help me, Muse, for
+>I wish to tell a piece of
+>controversial math,
+>
+>for which the lawyers
+>of DVD CCA
+>don't forbear to sue:
+>
+>that they alone should
+>know or have the right to teach
+>these skills and these rules.
+>
+>(Do they understand
+>the content, or is it just
+>the effects they see?)
+>
+>And all mathematics
+>is full of stories (just read
+>Eric Temple Bell);
+>
+>and CSS is
+>no exception to this rule.
+>Sing, Muse, decryption
+>
+>once secret, as all
+>knowledge, once unknown: how to
+>decrypt DVDs.
+>```
+
+- Seth Schoen, [DeCSS haiku](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS_haiku)