[Mindwipe]

> What happens if you print out the source code and publish it as a book? Can the courts prohibit a book?

Certainly under most European circumvention prohibition laws there's no requirement for the distribution of the circumvention tool to be done electronically, so yes, you could definitely prohibit a book.

(And books are prohibited in the likes of the UK by courts all the time for libel at al so it wouldn't be hard to see happening.)

[perihelions]

That's true, though that absolutely never happens in the US where GitHub is domiciled.

(*It's not that US courts can't find a book libelous; it's that the remedy in the US is monetary damages, not a sales ban).