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    16 bytes of data will get you a cease & desist order

    The MPAA & co aren't keen on the 16 byte key that enables the decryption of most AACS protected HD-DVDs being available on the Internet. This is mainly because it prevents them from stopping us watching HD-DVDs on our PCs without forking out a grand for an HDCP compliant monitor, graphics card and OS.

    So sites are getting cease & decist orders, like Digg. Digg tried to obey, but Digg's users stuck two fingers up at both the Digg administration and those delivering the c&d order: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/02/0235228

    The world's gone mad. DRM the way it exists now needs to die. But that's enough of my commentary on the whole subject; there'll be enough damn bloggers on the web with plenty to say, so I'll save my breath.
    Last edited by Steve; 02-05-2007 at 08:52 PM. Reason: I spent the whole day writing in VHDL and STILL can't count in hex
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    Hundreds of people have been banned from Digg for this, they even took the site down at points to remove all offending references to it.

    Then again if a huge multinational with an army of lawyers, very little respect for the law and the desire to sue anyone or thing that stood in it's way threatened my cash cow, I'd probably start pressing delete too. Though they seem to have found a backbone when thousands of people started complaining.

    Digg This: xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx
    by Kevin Rose at 9pm, May 1st, 2007 in Digg Website

    Today was an insane day. And as the founder of Digg, I just wanted to post my thoughts...

    In building and shaping the site I've always tried to stay as hands on as possible. We've always given site moderation (digging/burying) power to the community. Occasionally we step in to remove stories that violate our terms of use (eg. linking to pornography, illegal downloads, racial hate sites, etc.). So today was a difficult day for us. We had to decide whether to remove stories containing a single code based on a cease and desist declaration. We had to make a call, and in our desire to avoid a scenario where Digg would be interrupted or shut down, we decided to comply and remove the stories with the code.

    But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you've made it clear. You'd rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won't delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.

    If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.

    Digg on,

    Kevin

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    wow, next they'll claim the 0 and the 1 are against their digital rights....

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    the same key works on bloo ray, iirc

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    Quote Originally Posted by directhex View Post
    the same key works on bloo ray, iirc
    Apparently no-one ever told them not to re-use passwords

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    Quote Originally Posted by chuckskull View Post
    Apparently no-one ever told them not to re-use passwords
    or that numbers aren't copyrightable (and if they are, i lay claim to the number 37)

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    Quote Originally Posted by directhex View Post
    or that numbers aren't copyrightable (and if they are, i lay claim to the number 37)
    I'm laying claim to 13, 69 and 666 then. Going to make a mint from undersexed angsty teen's.

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    dibs on 42

    Edit: if you look to the side i await my cease and desist order. not that it would make much difference in the uk
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    Some smart cookie seems to have bought http://09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0.com/ Was going to try it myself and just cover it in adsense

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve View Post
    Haha, another fine mess, brought to you by the MPAA. Quite possibly the most famous hexadecimal number in the world now, thanks to their heavy handed and often plain stupid attacks on anyone reporting this.

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    Google now returns 364,000 results for 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0. That's going to keep the MPAA lawyers busy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jharne View Post
    Google now returns 364,000 results for **************. That's going to keep the MPAA lawyers busy.
    I would remove that unless you wanna get in trouble...

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    There seems to be 2 ideas about that right now some mods are removing some are fine with it.

    It's in a couple of my posts. Purely because my opinion is; it's only a number. I'm not including it with some method of using said number in bypassing copy-protection or instructions to do so. Not even encouraging it. It's merely commentary on the situation and DRM.

    I'm sure if you posted any string of numbers or letters it would be a password or serial for something somewhere.

    Though, I have no problem with Hexus removing the number from my posts if they want. It's their site and more importantly for a lot of them their livelihood, the MPAA aren't shy about ruining peoples lives over things as petty as this, anyone wanting to make a campaign should do it on their own sites and at their own risk imho.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SiM View Post
    I would remove that unless you wanna get in trouble...
    Well I'm not to worried about being the 364,001st, also as chuckskull says it's just a string of numbers without the means of using it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jharne View Post
    Well I'm not to worried about being the 364,001st, also as chuckskull says it's just a string of numbers without the means of using it.
    I'm just saying that the mods have told people not to post that...

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