Primepages (http://primes.utm.edu/) lists the largest known primes of various forms. One of the categories is primes that have no special form, which are the hardest to prove prime.
Chris Caldwell, the primepages maintainer, called up Phil Carmody and said, "Phil, if you can turn DeCSS into a 'general prime' that's big enough for the top 20 ever discovered, I'll be happy to host it on primepages." (Just as he would host any prime, DeCSS or not, that was big enough for the top 20.) So Phil did, cuz he's a smart guy and had a lot of computrons, and the prime went in the database.
The point here is that if you're merely turning data into a number, you have no legitimate reason to distribute it other than whatever reason you had to distribute the data itself. However, primepages existed long before DeCSS became a problem, and was arguably simply doing what it always did, which is to list the top tens.
I don't know if that would hold up in court -- it was never tested -- but the argument is a lot more subtle than what people are criticizing here.
An aside: Phil and I worked together on some other primality records. I wrote most of that Wikipedia article back in 2002 or so, and they went and featured it.. this was all before the rules for citations/references on Wikipedia became tighter than a mouse's arsehole. So if anyone is in the mood to add some citations, that would be much appreciated.