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		Benjo on Feb 8, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Magnet-hashes for all torrents on The Pirate Bay: ... Yes, in much the same way that any given number could be random, pseudorandom or nonrandom given its context, it can also be in violation or accordance with copyright law depending on its legal context.

chimeracoder on Feb 9, 2012 [–]

Don't confuse a random number with the value returned by a function that returns nondeterministic values with a somewhat predictable pattern.

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