The community is having a field day with the fall of HD-DVD DRM, mocking MPAA lawyers by artistically interpreting the “unspeakable” hex numbers in a variety of creative formats not seen since DeCSS.
Diggers revolt. Hilarity ensues.
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7 opinions for Fall of HD-DVD DRM Prompts Netizen Revolt
PENIX
May 2, 2007 at 1:23 am
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Mike Abundo
May 2, 2007 at 2:55 am
Remember, remember, the 30th of April.
JPOliva.org » Blog Archive » HD-DVD, MPAA and Internet History
May 2, 2007 at 2:59 am
[…] I noticed the first stirrings of this controversy Monday night when I saw a post containing the key being dugg up rapidly (about 200 diggs / min! ..And yes, I dugg it). The author claimed to have had his first post containing the key deleted. When I first spotted the post in had less than 400 diggs and by the time I went to bed a couple of hours later it was at almost 5000. The censorship on digg.com has apparently backfired bigtime, as every single front page story currently contains the DRM key for HD-DVD, and the news is spreading rapidly. […]
Digg Defies MPAA on HD-DVD Decryption Code
May 2, 2007 at 3:34 am
[…] a bold move that will go down in the annals of Internet legend, Digg founder Kevin Rose joins the Digg Revolt of 2007 by defying the MPAA’s order to make the HD-DVD decryption code an “unspeakable” […]
Mike Abundo
May 2, 2007 at 5:32 am
Actually, the MPAA is wrong. The code is a reverse-engineered trade secret, neither a copyrighted work nor a circumvention device.
If the MPAA sues Kevin Rose, Kevin will win.
Emerging Earth - A new world is coming. Will you be in it?
May 2, 2007 at 6:10 am
[…] all the fun ways to say the HD-DVD encryption code provide hours of amusement, I’ve come to realize […]
Emerging Earth
Jun 3, 2007 at 4:49 am
[…] killer app, baby. johnnyOnline aggregates his affections in the geeky Love Two Point Oh. Digg the HDDVD key […]
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