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There's a difference between lossy and lossless. You can compress anything down to a single bit if you so wish, just don't expect to get everything back. That's how lossy compression works.
It's perfectly legal to compress something to a single bit and publish it.
Hell, if I take and publish the average color of any copyrighted image that is at least 24 bits. That's lossy compression yet legal.