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[househunter]

Spread the love, the geeks will know what I'm talking about.

[fluffy]

being a not-geek, I too would like to share the love..?

[Mehmsy]

Something about HD-DVD? Google only yields blogspam.

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http://standrews.facebook.com/profile.php?id=37106593

[seisachtheia]

BINGO!


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I can't forget you but I can't remember

[Frank]

From one of those devious blogspams...

"D-DVD processing key for most movies released so far"

I suppose that's the significance. No idea how to put it to good use though...

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"There is only ever one truth. Things are always black or white, there's no such thing as a shade of grey. If you think that something is a shade of grey it simply means that you don't fully understand the situation. The truth is narrow and the path of the pursuit of truth is similarly narrow."

[househunter]

Posted on dcemu.co.uk

A lot of you might have heard about this recently, or seen it places around the internet, but what is it and why is it so important?

Well, turns out this string of numbers (hex, which is why there are letters too) is the key to decrypting HD-DVDs. Not only that but the MPAA have claimed that simply spreading this number, posting it anywhere, writing it down, etc. is illegal. Pulling the same stunt that they did with the CSS code, but this time with just a number.

If they gain any ground with these actions, it will mark a huge loss of personal freedom on the internet, and nobody but them wants to see that.

A banned number. What's next?

Do your part. Spread it around. On chalkboards, emails, forums, shout it from the rooftops, and make it known that the people will not stand for it.

I'm sorry if this isn't quite the typical article you see on the front page, and it probably belongs in our 'blogs' section. Frankly though, nobody reads that, so I'm going to do my part by making sure as many people see it as possible.

[Gubbins]

Oh delicious chips!

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...but then again, that is only my opinion.

[kats]

Call me incompetant, but I really don't get this story at all - what's so special about this number? what does it do? someone please explain!

[orudge]

Basically, hackers can use this code to be able to decrypt the encryption on one of the new kinds of high-definition DVDs, HD-DVD, so that people can, for instance, backup their discs, play them on Linux or other open source operating systems, or of course pirate them.

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http://www.owenrudge.net/
http://standrews.facebook.com/profile.php?id=37103734

[Malcolm]

I'd be pissed off too if my content was being pirated.

Really, though, you'd think brand new technology like HD-DVD would be more secure than that, I wonder how long it'll take before somebody takes Blu-Ray apart?

[orudge]

The thing about HD-DVD though is that the MPAA, etc, can in theory revoke the leaked key so that, while all HD-DVDs made prior to this key being leaked can be ripped, newer ones would not be susceptible. Of course, it's only a matter of time before a newer key is leaked or cracked - it's a game of cat and mouse.

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http://www.owenrudge.net/
http://standrews.facebook.com/profile.php?id=37103734

[Admin]

Until I have chance to further research the legality of posting such a key on a public forum, I have edited the code slightly.

Please don't post the full (correct) code on The Sinner. Cheers.

[DrAlex]

Quoting orudge from 15:26, 2nd May 2007
Of course, it's only a matter of time before a newer key is leaked or cracked - it's a game of cat and mouse.

Which I imagine drives the prices of said DVDs up. DRM blows.

In a semi-related matter, anyone notice that Facebook changed "tagged by" to "owned by" in their photos section? Kind of funny when you think that the T&Cs state that by submitting photos to facebook, they have an unlimited license to them until you take them down.

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The Sinner: Where no one ever learned "if you haven't got any thing nice to say, don't say anything at all."

[househunter]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6615047.stm

Here is a BBC link for the story, should clear things up for the non-geeky.

[Cain]

You sunk my battleship!

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I hold an element of surprise

[Power Metal Dom]

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Like flames on fuel...upon metal I drool

[MacMan]

>To be on the safe side...

>Until I have chance to further research the legality of >posting such a key on a public forum, I have edited the >code slightly.
>Please don't post the full (correct) code on The Sinner. >Cheers.

Good thing I copied it earlier then . Good thinking though; don't want the feds catching it with a web scanner. That would be pretty nasty for a small non-commercial website.

[Frank]

St Andrews has (Sanguinarian) Vampires. The Feds will have to get through them first. Then IT Services. Then the CS Department. Then realise the Sinner isn't directly affiliated with the University. And then they'll have to go through the St Andrews Paranormal Investigation Society. And then we'll send the Assassins after them.

But it'd be all for nout in the end, really. As it's no longer on the website!

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"There is only ever one truth. Things are always black or white, there's no such thing as a shade of grey. If you think that something is a shade of grey it simply means that you don't fully understand the situation. The truth is narrow and the path of the pursuit of truth is similarly narrow."

[Kempy]

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/holl ... wn_protest
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/02/ef ... e_law.html
http://t3knomanser.livejournal.com/906184.html

[househunter]

Fortunately DMCA is a US law. In the US it is illegal to watch DVDs using software such as VLC and Media Player Classic because of this law.