#+title: decss-haiku

#+date: <2019-03-16>

#+begin_quote
  #+begin_example
    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.
  #+end_example
#+end_quote

Seth Schoen, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS_haiku][DeCSS haiku]]