"...worthy of being published on the lists of the highest prime numbers.[1] In a way, by having this number independently published for a completely unrelated reason to the DeCSS code, he had been able to evade legal responsibility for the original software."
Just because it has a secondary reason of interest, it doesn't negate the original intent (especially when the original intent has been documented by the author). I doubt this would stand up if legally challenged.
Primes are pretty dense in the integers - unless you're going to say 'data can't be illegal' - including e.g. CP, then highlighting illegal primes is simply not a valid evasion.
"...worthy of being published on the lists of the highest prime numbers.[1] In a way, by having this number independently published for a completely unrelated reason to the DeCSS code, he had been able to evade legal responsibility for the original software."