AACS Vows To Shut Me Down.

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Im not interested in numerology but this thing is getting to me: 09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0.

AACS Vows To Shut Me Down. Well not me personally yet, but the 800.000+ websites that published the hexadecimal HD-DVD key on the net. Are they stupid or what? Michael Ayers, the chairman of the AACS-LA has already send a couple of threat letters to websites. AACS spent millions of dollars on it and years to design a "secure" implementation. The hackers broke it days and for free :)

Not to me yet, but hey: let them come those filthy capitalists, I never download a single DVD, I buy them all. My DVD collection is over 300+ DVD's now. If anyone is a good buyer it must be me. Still what they are trying to do here raises more resentment against them.

Michael Ayers says that this doesn't impact free speech, that it's possible to discuss the crack and DRM in general without reproducing the key. Yeah right, I really want to take a look at his personal PC and see what he downloaded the last couple of years. And see what key he uses for Microsoft Office. Everyone did it once, I'm sure.

This guy isn't getting it. It's impossible to protect your data from being copied. If it's colored, photographed, drawn, written, or just made in bits that turn to bytes, it can be copied. History is our best teacher, trying to prevent data copy is impossible. Well we can also represent it in other encoding formats. How about:

Binary: 00001001 11111001 00010001 00000010 10011101 01110100 11100011 01011011 11011000
01000001 01010110 11000101 01100011 01010110 10001000 11000000
Dec/char: 9 249 17 2 157 116 227 91 216 65 86 197 99 86 136 192
Base64: CfkRAp1041vYQVbFY1aIwA==
MD2: e38373bf7b9b55e8741f89a406ee4fd8
MD4: 93188a4835ccb6db5d2001fc8973a0f6
MD5: cfddca0b93558c11cd6d2a7023a544bf
SHA1: d5e400bcea3b00105ca0db2425f5db0196040c
RIPEMD-160: 3d6eae05 f335ba2f ff3c2982 1ba3b918 349e0166
SHA2-256: 48c4fa0ab4a60b95dec10e22762c0ec0d765527fd413c91c4eb66682a03f4a11
SHA2-384:
0d6b326900b3acfdc6c942d76e5b98a2492e1799315e808ae90dc0c5ae2d3ef123039953d167bebaea3af56311323c9a
SHA2-512:
716de4ce3344bb3b1a280de18551c488bc6009e4a6c0af7fbf187a880be61012
9b379bf4e82c35681e8ff91befd19fd381a84eb49b21d779670cd2c556a301dc

Michael Ayers from AACS added:
"But a line is crossed when we start seeing keys being distributed and tools for circumvention. You step outside of the realm of protected free speech then." He said tracking down everyone who had published the keys was a "resource intensive exercise". A search on Google shows almost 700,000 pages have published the key.Mr Ayers said that while he could not reveal the specific steps the group would be taking, it would be using both "legal and technical" steps to prevent the circumvention of copy protection. "We will take whatever action is appropriate," he said. "We hope the public respects our position and complies with applicable laws." He also added that the copy protection on the HD-DVDs was "absolutely not broken".

Ok, so now he says it isn't broken, why sue then? Oh and I don't know what that hexadecimal key does. To me it's just a another hexadecimal number. Next thing we know it's not allowed to write about nullbytes because they can break intellectual property also.

See the hilarious legal letter they send to Google
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