I want to sing the DeCSS song

The case between the MPAA and the 2600.org is going to federal court. The case is about whether 1) whether the DeCSS code is considered expression and 2) whether the demand not to link to the code nor link to a site that has the code violates the first amendment. I thought of something: what if I sing a song and the song consists entirely of the DeCSS code? Then I put record it on an mp3 file and distribute it via Napster and Bearshare and all of the other places. I give it a snazzy techno beat, a Santana-like guitar solo in the middle, and so on. Am I violating copyright law for doing this? I am singing a song. And to demonstrate once and for all that a computer program is a form of expression.

Someone beat you to it, there is a story about it here

There is a guy named David S. Touretsky at Carnegie-Mellon university who has a gallery of DeCSS descramblers on his website. I’m not going to provide a link due to the board’s concern for potential copyright violations, but it shouldn’t be too hard to find. In addition to the song you mentioned, you can get a dramatic reading of the algorithm, a haiku of the algorithm, an electronic greeting card with the source code as a message, a .gif file of a screen dump of the code (it’s not the code, it’s a picture of the code, wink wink), a t-shirt with a Perl implementation of the algorithm on it, and so on. Touretsky’s point seems to be that source code is protected under the first amendment since it is a form of written expression. Even if it is not, the algorithm can be freely distributed in a myriad of forms, so what is the point of suppressing the source code? In other words, where does one draw the line in a case like this?

looking at the above site, it appears that someone has actually put together a compilation cd of 7 songs, each using the DeCSS as a component of the recording

Aww, it seems that my innovations are someone else’s actions. Well, congrats Touretsky.