[IshKebab]

This was clearly not written by a lawyer. I am also not a lawyer but it's pretty clear that merely distributing this prime number is not illegal. Distributing it with the intent to use it to use it as DeCSS may be though. And it would be pretty hard to convince a judge that you didn't intent to use it as DeCSS.

[gowld]

I don't know about DeCSS in particular, but plenty of laws are strict liability meaning intent is not required to obtain a conviction.

> And it would be pretty hard to convince a judge that you didn't intent to use it as DeCSS.

so "merely distributing this prime number is not illegal" is de facto illegal.

[pbhjpbhj]

Supposedly the prosecution - in an English-style law system - has to convince the court beyond reasonable doubt that it was intended to be used for wrong.