Posted on 05/01/2007 8:58:23 PM PDT by HAL9000
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The folks at Digg.com have let the social news genie out of the bottle, and now they can't control it. Since the HD-DVD encryption code was discovered and published, readers at Digg have been repeatedly submitting stories with the 16 digit hex code in the titles and bodies. Just as quickly as these posts crawl up the Digg charts, admins seem to be deleting them.Just search Google for 09 F9 and you'll find the key. Will AACS send a Cease and Desist to InfoWorld because I posted the text "09 F9"? If so, we might as well give up on this whole Internet thing right here and now.
Can a simple, short string of numbers and letters (the full key) really be copyrighted? And is Digg.com receiving a proper takedown notice for each case, or are they taking things into their own hands and deleting posts willy-nilly?
The same sort of thing happened when the DeCSS code came out - I even have a t-shirt with the code printed on it. This just goes to show how useless the DMCA is, and how information cannot be controlled, and that DRM will never truly work.
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that really ain’t eleven in there, it’s seventeen, but some artistic license is allowed
I see why Wikipedia missed it, wrong last number... LOL
LOL...
Too obscure?
digg.com is in complete meltdown. It’s sad and yet oddly entertaining.
It’s the nature of data to be free. I love it
You said — “digg.com is in complete meltdown. Its sad and yet oddly entertaining.”
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LOL..., yes it is entertaining...
A side thought here. I see that it was posted by digg.com that they had to remove this number because it was “copyrighted”??? — or intellectual property rights??? [whatever...] Well, I think I know the solution to that one.
You haven’t ever heard of copyrighting (or property rights to) something *backwards* have you? I haven’t. So, simply post the number *everywhere* — backwards — with the additional comment to reverse it. Simple, I would think....
Hey, can someone put out that idea??!!
Yeah!!
This is a laugh-a-minute... :-)
Digg just went offline lolz
I have absolutely no idea what this code-stuff is all about.
I need help converting my old 7” reel-to-reel tapes over to those plastic CD thingys.
Will these codes help me? Thanks ..................... FRegards
Maybe (too obscure)..., how about my idea of simply reversing the entire thing and say, “reverse”....
Or, put it a pattern of counting every 4th number, so start at the first number, count four, count four and when to the end, go back around again, still counting four.
To me the “reverse” is the easiest. Can simpy “reverse” overcome “intellectual property rights”?? That’s the question...
Digg will be down for a brief period, while we make some changes.
While not digging, the digg crew recommends:
hahahaha...excellent post...
You asked — “Will these codes help me? Thanks ..................... FRegards”
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Well, it will probably help you the same way the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution helps you. You probably don’t refer to them every day or even once a month, maybe not even in the last five years. BUT, they have been helping you every single day by what they mean and how it integrates into your life.
This is simply a number (code-cracking number) which will allow a programmer to give you a program that will let you crack the supposedly “uncrackable” HD DVDs... LOL...
So, everyone is going nuts over it...
Theoretically, it would be a DMCA circumvention method/device in any form in which it could be represented.
In reality, there’s no need to “hide” it anymore. That sequence generates 270,000+ hits on Google. This toothpaste is not going back in the tube.
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