09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
AACS vows to fight people who publish the key:
Bring it on, boneheads.
As I wrote in The Anarchist in the Library, Sec. 1201 (anti-circumvention) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act outlaws math.
And that's futile.
And stupid.
And counterproductive.
The key of digits is part of what is needed to decode the digital rights management around HD-DVDs.
In case you missed it, here it is again:
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
And again:
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
Hahahaha! I am breaking federal law! Hahahaha!
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
Once more, behind the back!
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
Kids. Don't try this at home.
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
And the great Ed Felten explains:
... While it’s obvious why the creator of a movie or a song might deserve some special claim over the use of their creation, it’s hard to see why anyone should be able to pick a number at random and unilaterally declare ownership of it. There is nothing creative about this number — indeed, it was chosen by a method designed to ensure that the resulting number was in no way special. It’s just a number they picked out of a hat. And now they own it?
As if that’s not weird enough, there are actually millions of other numbers (other keys used in AACS) that AACS LA claims to own, and we don’t know what they are. When I wrote the thirty-digit number that appears above, I carefully avoided writing the real 09F9 number, so as to avoid the possibility of mind-bending lawsuits over integer ownership. But there is still a nonzero probability that AACS LA thinks it owns the number I wrote.
When the great mathematician Leopold Kronecker wrote his famous dictum, “God created the integers; all else is the work of man”, he meant that the basic structure of mathematics is part of the design of the universe. What God created, AACS LA now wants to take away. ...
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