flickr.com — A story JUST hit the front page about the AACS key, It was dugg up fast, Very fast... And guess what happened? It is shutdown fast... You say "Oh it was buried"... Wrong, Search for it... The story is not even showing up in the "Buried Stories" results. Thanks, Digg... You know how to censor people.New key: 455FE10422CA29C4933F95052B792AB2
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lilrabbitfoofooMay 30, 2007
DRM is dead. The AACS would be wise to find a new business model...and fast. Maybe they could put their energies into something that helps the human condition and empowers artists and other content creators, instead of trying to retard the inevitable free flow of information to the limited and evaporating benefit of a handful of dinosaur distributors as they march themselves to extinction? Just a thought.
nicksvideoMay 30, 2007
@omgwtfroflmaox2You obviously didn't get the joke.
totallyamazingMay 30, 2007
OMG Censorship!!!! On a privately owned website..... If you want to not be "censored" get a web host and make another crappy blog. Then you can post the AACS key all you want and see how fun it is to have lawyers calling you. Idiot.
Closed AccountMay 30, 2007
the contract is not a moot point. it's still valid. you agreed to it, you have to honor it. just because you don't get your way all the time is no reason for acting like a baby and ruining the site for those of us that understand what 'i agree to the terms and conditions for using digg' mean. you don't like the tos? don't sign it, don't use the site. go start your own, www.pligg.com. nobody is forcing you to be here, you are choosing to. and since you made that choice, you have to play by the rules.
sjbdallasMay 30, 2007
Regarding the legality, i'm wondering if someone could patent a few hundred keys then sue the when those keys are used?
grizMay 30, 2007
How many of you who keep posting this number in various places and are rallying to this "cause" know how to use this number?
fl272May 31, 2007
@SmeagelUnfortunately, it illegal. It's what is known as an illegal number. (<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number)</a>Title I of the DMCA could be interpreted as making possession of that hex key illegal, because the law has such a broad definition of what constitutes circumventing DRM. If you had a good enough team of lawyers, you could make an argument that CyberLink's DVD Software (Japanese Version) and Microsoft's XBox 360 HD-DVD Drive violates part "C" of this (below), because the programmers "that person" were probably at least somewhat aware of the gaping holes in their firmware and software (which allows AACS to be circumvented) that the marketing department "a person acting in concert with that person" marketed. I am not saying that they do violate this law, just that the definition is much too broad and could be expanded to almost anything.Note: Those two products by Microsoft and Cyberlink were reportedly used by the people who circumvented AACS specifically because they had vulnerabilities.(a) Violations Regarding Circumvention of Technological Measures.—(2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that—(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or(C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person’s knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
fl272May 31, 2007
Forgot to say that I didn't think it was physically possible, but DRM both sucks and blows. (Paraphrased from Bart Simpson)