Carnal Reason

The BBC:

Bloggers “crossed the line” when they posted a software key that could break the encryption on some HD-DVDs, the AACS copy protection body has said.

Thousands of websites published the key, which had been uncovered in a bid to circumvent digital rights management (DRM) technology on HD-DVD discs.

Many said they had done this as an exercise in free speech.

An AACS executive said it was looking at “legal and technical tools” to confront those who published the key.

Thousands is a bit of an understatement. Count was over 700,000 when I checked, and is probably over a million by now.

Still, the law is the law. So I have made sure the evil key does not appear on this blog. None of the strings below is the forbidden key. No sir, not one. Each one, by construction, differs from the forbidden key.

19-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c1
09-29-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-82-c0
09-f9-31-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-53-88-c0
09-f9-11-42-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-64-56-88-c0
09-f9-11-02-6d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c6-63-56-88-c0

I hope the rest of the internet will follow my example and respect the AACS’s authoritay.

Posted on May 4th, 2007 by pwyll
Filed under: politics