Why is 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 important? It’s the HD DVD processing key that allows people to watch HD DVD content. With it you can watch HD content and decrypt it from it’s media, even though ‘The Industry’ doesn’t want you to. Oh, and apparently it’s copyrighted so under the DMCA my posting it here is illegal etc etc.
Well tough titties, it’s on Digg and the story has just hit 10k diggs, which is very unusual even for a digg story. This is the article that the digg links to.
Go digg the article, go post that number on your own website.
**edit**
It seems the Digg article got deleted as a comment mentions below, after hitting 15k diggs! I can’t say I applaud Kevin and his team for taking this stance, but I’m pretty sure they would be right behind the rest of us 100% of the way if they could; Big business being what it is, sometimes taking a moral stance is harder than it seems.
Simply put, keep on spreading the number. This little piece of text, this string of characters is a protest, plain and simple. Put it in your signatures, on your emails, in your IM conversations. Maybe I’ll be served with a takedown notice tomorrow, maybe I’ll have to comply. It’s not easy for people running personal sites to stand up to the combined strength of the entertainment industry. Each time this simple string of numbers is copied to a new web server though, each conversation, each time a hard drive platter spins up and caches my page, it’s a big FUCK YOU! to those ass-holes who think they can control us through intimidation.
I deeply believe that Information wants to be Free. It’s up to us.
**edit**
I’m excited to say that the DIgg team has come out kicking this is fantastic news. I think nothing can more plainly show how dedicated the team is at Digg to it’s users, us. Thank you!
Related links
http://digg.com/tech_news/Digg_This_09_f9_11_02_9d_74_e3_5b_d8_41_56_c5_63_56_88_c0_28
http://09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63.com/
http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/04/30/spread-this-number/
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1152
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/30/aacs_drm_body_censor.html
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Digg hit 15,000 hits and now the story’s removed.
Comment by 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 — May 1, 2007 @ 5:26 pm
I just started a blog about it. Mind if I link you?
http://09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63.com/
Comment by jaduncan — May 2, 2007 @ 12:22 am
You’re welcome to Jaduncan, thanks for asking.
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Spread the love of Chazz and Jimmy: http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/1541/picture2on3.png
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I love these lights
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09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0…
Nur damit es hier auch mal gesagt wurde.
Wird ja sonst nirgends erwähnt.
Schade eigentlich. Aber ist ja auch illegal, also verständlich, dass sich niemand traut. Also belassen wir es doch einfach dabei….
Trackback by ...got brain? — May 3, 2007 @ 8:40 am
hex offenders!
http://spreadthisnumber.spreadshirt.com
Comment by doom9 — May 3, 2007 @ 8:00 pm
I think we are just jerking off here.
The people who know how to use the code already know it. As for the rest of us,. what the heck do we do with these numbers?
Comment by Raidermurf — May 7, 2007 @ 1:45 am
That’s a good question Raidermurf. Well basically the practical use of the number is this.
Clever programmers have taken the number, an encryption key and used it to create software that allows you to make backups on your HD DVDs, this was written by the now famous Muslix64 and is called ‘BackupHDDVD’.
The number isn’t significant to most people in a practical sense, This isn’t free money it’s free speech.
Comment by Nemo Fairbrother — May 7, 2007 @ 3:37 am
You know, I was all over this number thing, from a trivia perspective, when it first broke last week. But it’s getting kind of goofy now.
“This little piece of text, this string of characters is a protest, plain and simple.”
What are you protesting, exactly?
“…it’s a big FUCK YOU! to those ass-holes who think they can control us through intimidation.”
What are they trying to control? Your ability to pirate the content that they own? Seems like they might be well in their right to try to control that.
“I deeply believe that Information wants to be Free. It’s up to us.”
Ah, yes, that classic of hacker logic. You’re not doing anything wrong, because information wants to be free. Except it doesn’t. Information doesn’t desire anything. Information is just information. It doesn’t care if it’s free or not. What you’re really saying is that *you* want information to be free. Which is another way of saying that *you* don’t want to pay for HD-DVD movies. Which is, unfortunately, a less compelling argument.
Comment by Todd — May 7, 2007 @ 8:45 am
“What are you protesting, exactly?”
DRM. Digital Rights Management is a euphemistic term for the media industry squeezing the last penny out of the consumer. When I buy a DVD I expect to be able to do with it what I want, that includes ripping it to my PC or backing it up. When I buy music I expect the same. I’m not sure if you are away of the SONY CD controversy, but they essentially made music CDs that infected your computer with what amounted to a virus. If I’m protesting anything, it’s that.
DRM is wrong, I’m not going to put up with it.
Further to that the current laws regarding Intellectual Property are also wrong. Peoples IP needs to be respected, but currently the laws regarding it are so poorly thought out that there are Companies that exist just to buy patents and sue people when they infringe on said patents.
If the media industry wants me to fork out money to watch their movies and listen to their music then they need to let me do it on my terms. If I have to bend over just to please them, that’s not going to happen.
“It [information] doesn’t care if it’s free or not.” This is true, information does not really desire anything; However, the digital age has made information the most significant resource. Further to that there is nothing currently easier to duplicate than the info we store on our Hard drives and on the Internet.
If you look at the way that Computers work, you’ll find that they depend on the necessity of duplicating information across a variety of mediums. This is a necessity of modern computing.
Take for instance watching Movies. If you watch a movie in Windows Media Player then the movie is being copied chunk by chunk from the file/dvd into main memory. It’s probably being cached somewhere too. Eventually it reaches your monitor where it’s again copied as it’s displayed.
However in Vista if you want to watch HD content the Media conglomerates are so scared of you copying it that Microsoft has gone out of their way to make sure that the normal process of caching content, of it travelling down cables and wires is protected. The problem is that this is a crippling process which demands you allow Vista Crippleware to downgrade your multimedia experience if you haven’t made the grade. What’s the grade? Software/Hardware that’s been certified by the media industry.
Read The Longest Suicide Note in History for more info.
I’m not looking for free beer, I’m looking for free Speech.
You seem to have inferred quite a lot from a few simple words Todd.
I would be happy to pay for HD DVDs if I could copy them or rip them to my PC. As it currently stands this is illegal - so guess what I’m not going to buy them. You are welcome to do what ever you want, I can hardly decide for you. However every time you reach in your wallet you are supporting an industry which is taking away your rights as a consumer.
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