It’s a joke as that is one of the few significant non-piracy uses of torrents.

For one, it's funnier. Secondly, declaring an intention to commit a crime on the Internet doesn't have a great track record.

It's still declaring an intention to commit a crime either way though, isn't it? Unless you truly believe any prosecutorial organization wouldn't be able to crack the code.

Been code for piracy from at least 2008.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Linux+ISO&am...

I think they were making a thinly-veiled reference to torrenting (because for a long time the only legit use case for torrenting was Linux images?) but I'm not sure

I thought it was clear what they were saying but funny. Why not?

Talking about it in jokes and codes just strikes me as either immature or ashamed, like how teenagers talk about sex or drugs. I think if they believe what they're doing is justified then they shouldn't be ashamed, and there's no reason to talk in code since that's definitely not protecting them one bit from any sort of legal action.

Ok.