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blog.wired.com — A Digg.com user is claiming he got the boot from Digg for posting the HD-DVD AACS Processing Key number to the popular news aggrigation and filtering site. The processing key, a string of numbers only a hacker could love, is key to unlocking copy-protected High Def movies. In other words: it's a DMCA no-no for you to know, citizen consumer.

Who dugg this? Made popular May 2, 2007

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  • quomen, on 10/12/2007, -23/+3279 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 bottles of beer on the wall
    9 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 bottles of beer,
    take one down, pass it around
    9 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 B9 bottles of beer on the wall.
  • diggcensors, on 10/12/2007, -12/+202Censorship is for cowards.
  • drakia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+101guomen, learn to count hex, it's "BF bottles of beer on the wall" not B9, jeeze
  • neurokaotix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+94In other news the key to unlocking copy-protected HD-DVD movies is spreading around the Internet like a wildfire
  • drakia, on 10/12/2007, -7/+60You know what, *****, and ***** Digg if they ban me
    09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
    CfkRAp1041vYQVbFY1aIwA== -- Base 64
    9 249 17 2 157 116 227 91 216 65 86 197 99 86 136 192 -- Decimal
    00001001 11111001 00010001 00000010 10011101 01110100 11100011 01011011 11011000 01000001 01010110 11000101 01100011 01010110 10001000 11000000 -- Binary
    All based on results from http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/ So not sure if they're accurate.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+6409-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0

  • JRJ0710296, on 10/12/2007, -3/+48digg showed that their advertisers are more important than their readership.

    that is the worst thing they could of possible done.
  • Grrreen, on 10/12/2007, -31/+75Yeesh... If only you guys would put this much effort into something that actually has some meaning.

    Like ending the genocide in Darfur.
    Like ending a pointless war in the middle east.
    Like caring about global warming.
    Like feeding all the people who are starving in your own back yards.
    Like helping get people off the streets.

    Like making the world a better place to live.

    What a waste of time.
  • mdollarsign, on 10/12/2007, -6/+46Angry Nerd Effect!
  • topdeck55, on 10/12/2007, -2/+38BRUSH YOUR TEETH!
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  • Bossy, on 10/12/2007, -9/+36guys, stop spreading the same thing over and over again on digg. Spread it on other boards, sites, comments. ***** the MPAA!
  • aukxsona, on 10/12/2007, -5/+31Tomorrow I will not login in to digg.
    The day after I will not.
    I will not log in a gain unless there is an official apology.

    Not fighting the system...I am not so geekish to really care about a bunch of numbers I couldn't use if I tried.

    It is the principal of Free Speech this country was founded on. I don't support tyrants in any form. Be it a company, a government, or a community leader.

    I do this because I am an American. Reinstate all users, apologize for your heavy handed draconian tactics...or loose even the NON-Geeks ...the political elites if you will.
  • Bossy, on 10/12/2007, -6/+32the number was posted in public domain, it was not a copyright. It is not ILLEGAL. Either you fight now or never.
  • ShBm, on 10/12/2007, -17/+43Unless you are doing the ***** you just said stfu. Instead, you're wasting your time yelling at people on the internet.
  • teh1337one, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Wow, this is probably the new record for front page: 48 minutes. Oh, and btw, l09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0ugh.
  • tonklit, on 10/12/2007, -11/+32Until change is made, no. Not overkill.

    Wake up, give a *****. Create change. Take your country back.
  • Brishen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20WHY HAS THIS NOT EVEN MADE A DENT ON SLASHDOT?????
  • Erowid, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24What I love about this, is that if nothing had been banned, the story would have made it to the front page, then been forgotten within an hour or three. But as it is, this number is just unavoidable.
  • Erowid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20What I love about this, is that if nothing had been banned, the story would have made it to the front page, then been forgotten within an hour or three. But as it is, this number is just unavoidable.
  • z00kus, on 10/12/2007, -10/+29http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2338184677
    Join us in on the movement of a lifetime!
  • corsairstw, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21This is inSANE!!!
  • Raian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18 thetaco82

    I agree with you-- it is annoying. But the more I think about it, and after re-reading Jay's fallacious argument, I am a little bit annoyed with digg in general.

    They made a massive, arbitrary mistake-- and now they are paying for it in spades.
  • adfadfadad23, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21
    CAUTION IF YOU PLAY WITH (09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0) DIGG YOU MAY GET BURNED
  • jeff1943, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Use to tool called BackupHDDVD.
  • adfadfadad23, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Fight the power !
  • Nath4n, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19Digital Revolution!
  • neurokaotix, on 10/12/2007, -13/+27digg is dying... comment duped. sorry.
  • TGMD, on 10/12/2007, -13/+27okay I know how to solve these problems:
    1. Nuke Darfur... no more genocide
    2. Nuke the mid-east... no more war
    3. I can't figure out a way to use nukes to end global warming but I'll figure it out
    4. Nuke those who can't feed themselves
    5. Well thankfully because we are nuking most of the world's population there will be plenty of homes
    6. I'm sure once everyone who isn't me is nuked the world will be way better...

    But really... It is a shame that these idiots get up in arms over something as simple as this but nothing worth while..
  • thanatron, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2309 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0
  • wired4u, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10By the end of the evening the number is going to be stuck inside my head.
  • TheWorm, on 10/12/2007, -9/+19This is getting ridiculous. Every single story on the frontpage right now is related to the HD-DVD thing.
  • mannymix03, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12how do you even use the damn key?
  • saggygrandma, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12quomen for the record take 1 from C0 and you would have BF. it goes 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11This number: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 ?
  • Xert, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11At this point it's already out there on other boards. The point is that Digg's asinine about it.
  • GimmeYoShoes, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13lol
  • supersaw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1009 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 i mashed my keyboard and this came out
  • bethaners, on 02/27/2009, -1/+9A couple of years ago, I was watching The Screen Savers, because I was a girl with a big crush on Keven Rose.
    Kevin Rose was talking about having a t-shirt with the code for decoding DVD's on it.
    I thought that was so cool. It made me want to be a geek.

    Mighty = Fallen.
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  • frostyausty, on 10/12/2007, -9/+16they call me 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 on the streets so this is a huge dissapointment for me :(
  • supersaw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+809 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 This is Sparta!!!
  • jon_k, on 10/12/2007, -14/+21"This genie is already out of the bottle, so there is no more reason for you people to pollute the Digg with this asinine *****."

    Too ***** bad. People are angry with Digg when they thought this was a good community. Many people discovered that Digg is in partnership with HD-DVD and are outraged by the fact. It seems people are sharing their thoughts by spamming digg with B.S. stories (and many others are digging them to the frontpage.)

    This all could have been avoided but Kevin Rose handled the situation very poorly. Better luck next time.
  • brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Madness??

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    IS


    Oh wait, this is madness. Carry on
  • Kevinb1577, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6hey digg team, party at my house tonight!! address: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0


    and i just got a new HD TV!!!
  • danakin, on 10/12/2007, -10/+16Yeah, you sure can create change. Keep it up. You might just see Digg pull the ultimate censorship act: getting shut down.

    You guys are all whiny crybabies. Grow up.
  • archlich, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
  • AmadelaJake, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9the more you suppress it, the more it grows.

    that was the thing Digg has done.

    this won't happen if they didn't banned Digg users that are posting about Digg censorship. take note: Digg censhorship. its not even about HD-DVD encryption keys.
  • bonked, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Kevin "The Broken" Rose lost a bit of cred in my book for the handling of the situation.
  • Everman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6
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