body: [This video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnEyjwdoj7g) explaining [this wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime) says that possessing a particular number can be illegal. Is this true?
  
  
  From the article (internal links and formatting removed):
  
  
  
  > 
  > An illegal prime is a prime number that represents information whose possession or distribution is forbidden in some legal jurisdiction. One of the first illegal primes was found in 2001. When interpreted in a particular way, it describes a computer program that bypasses the digital rights management scheme used on DVDs. Distribution of such a program in the United States is illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. An illegal prime is a kind of illegal number.
  > 
  > 
  > 
  
  
  
title: Can numbers be illegal?