AMEG VERO: Napster gets the Pig Encoder pulled. I wonder whether such a software system for bypassing filename filters would count as a "circumvention device", and thus be illegal. What if it's a sequence of instructions to a human searcher (i.e., "remove the first letter of each word", "replace all As with Es", "transliterate into Hebrew/Katakana and back"), and not a computer program? If someone posted that up, could they be prosecuted for conspiracy or incitement?

(Come to think of it, English contains a lot of redundancy; you could probably systematically throw away a lot of information from song titles and still be able to find songs uniquely. Not that we'd encourage that sort of behaviour here, no...)

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