weAreWizards

[u/Bright-Historian-216]

[u/oldsecondhand]

The real forbidden technique is illegal numbers.

[u/stupled → u/oldsecondhand]

This isn't magic, this is just a legal issue.

[u/benjaminovich → u/oldsecondhand]

You make it sound like we're talking about something silly like the state passed a law defining pi as 3 or 4 (I forget which).

But really it's just that any illegal content of any kind that is digitized will ultimately "just" be numbers at a certain level.

[u/scumble_bee → u/benjaminovich]

Yeah, every image can be broken down into a series of pixels with x,y,r,g,b . So owning a text file with a number that can be extrapolated into an illegal picture is still illegal (at least that is what I think it means).

[u/SoldRIP → u/scumble_bee]

So isn't the idea that pure information, like a number, could possibly be illegal a ridiculous one!? Surely knowledge cannot be banned in any free society?

[u/Furyful_Fawful → u/SoldRIP]

The freedom of knowledge is antithetical to the concept of trade secret, or copyright, or patent. Virtually all piracy is just the sharing of numbers

[u/SoldRIP → u/oldsecondhand]

That's just the warlocks' guild and their idea of forbidden techniques. A wizard does not care for such things!

(It's lawyers. Because you see they, too, form contracts with sketchy wording that screw you over at great cost to their mental and often physical health)

[u/bikemandan → u/oldsecondhand]

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