Apparently someone had hacked the DVD encryption code...apparently the DMCA found out and is starting to serve all these websites...
Apparently someone thought the great idea was to post the article to digg...they got banned as per the TOS.
Apparently the interwebs are not happy with digg...
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Cybermagellan
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Rowan
Look, no errors.
Links or it didn't happen.
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GoddersUK
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Notice how the wikipedia pages for Digg and HD-DVD have "mysteriously" been protected?
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blowdart
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GoddersUK wrote:Notice how the wikipedia pages for Digg and HD-DVD have "mysteriously" been protected?
What's so mysterious? The details are on the talk pages
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blowdart wrote:
GoddersUK wrote: Notice how the wikipedia pages for Digg and HD-DVD have "mysteriously" been protected?
What's so mysterious? The details are on the igg#HD-DVD_DRM_Key_Controversy">talk pages
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GoddersUK
My five year mission: To boldly split infinitives that no man has split before!
blowdart wrote:
GoddersUK wrote:Notice how the wikipedia pages for Digg and HD-DVD have "mysteriously" been protected?
What's so mysterious? The details are on the igg#HD-DVD_DRM_Key_Controversy">talk pages
Hence the "".
p.s. It also made bbc news front page.
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Not sure what our policy is going to be regarding the numbers yet.
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stevo_
Human after all
Personally I think posting it is inciting anger and 'drama' I wouldn't ban people/delete post for posting the key. But I would just adire it if this forum didn't bow down to the drama of this whole situation- which to be frank means nothing.
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blowdart
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phreaks wrote:
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OK what the heck, the href points to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Digg#HD-DVD_DRM_Key_Controversy
Which is right.
C9 must be eating it somehow
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GoddersUK
My five year mission: To boldly split infinitives that no man has split before!
Well this whole digg thing kind of backfired on aacs, it's just genterated the illegal keys a whole load of publicity, and generated load of negative publicity for aacs.
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blowdart
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GoddersUK wrote:Well this whole digg thing kind of backfired on aacs, it's just genterated the illegal keys a whole load of publicity, and generated load of negative publicity for aacs.
Interesting you called them illegal. As they certainly aren't illegal; they're just a string of hex. Care to justify what law you think they're covered under? (Especially UK law, as I assume you're from there)
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so freedom of speech > others freedom to make money (the studio companies)
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GoddersUK
My five year mission: To boldly split infinitives that no man has split before!
blowdart wrote:
GoddersUK wrote:Well this whole digg thing kind of backfired on aacs, it's just genterated the illegal keys a whole load of publicity, and generated load of negative publicity for aacs.
Interesting you called them illegal. As they certainly aren't illegal; they're just a string of hex. Care to justify what law you think they're covered under? (Especially UK law, as I assume you're from there)
I am UK yes, and while the keys themsleves may not be illegal, most of their uses probably are. Plus they are the "(intellectual) property" of a US company, and so, surely, are covered under US copyright law. From what I understand of that it would be impossible to extract the keys without breaking US copyright law in some way. Besides I expect that "intent to circumvent legitmate security features for any reason" is probably an offense. But, I'm not a lawyer, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
Perhaps it just to much propoganda from aacs etc.
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blowdart
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GoddersUK wrote:
I am UK yes, and while the keys themsleves may not be illegal, most of their uses probably are. Plus they are the "(intellectual) property" of a US company, and so, surely, are covered under US copyright law. From what I understand of that it would be impossible to extract the keys without breaking US copyright law in some way. Besides I expect that "intent to circumvent legitmate security features for any reason" is probably an offense. But, I'm not a lawyer, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
Except how can a keyset, a set of numbers be intellectual property? I'm not convinced they can be. That's like my claiming the public key on my SSL cert can't be copied, because it's my IP. It's a nonsense.
Sure the encryption/decryption algorithm is IP. But what worries me more is your rolling over to the ACCS's idea of what is copyrighted. Sure, the work on the HD-DVD, the movie, is copyrighted. However the take down notices are issued under the DMCA, which is a US only law, which certainly doesn't apply to you.
What's even more amusing the ACCS is sending out take down notices for links to other web sites which contain the key information. Links.
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CannotResolveSymbol
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blowdart wrote:phreaks wrote:
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OK what the heck, the href points to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Digg#HD-DVD_DRM_Key_Controversy
Which is right.
C9 must be eating it somehow
It's the
in the link triggering smileys. Here it is properly linked:
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harumscarum
out of memory
I must be old because I do not understand why diggers are getting their knickers in a twist over this. The mob like mentality of digg and community driven sites is annoying.
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