Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt 1142
fieryprophet writes "An astonishing number of stories related to HD-DVD encryption keys have gone missing in action from digg.com, in many cases along with the account of the diggers who submitted them. Diggers are in open revolt against the moderators and are retaliating in clever and inventive ways. At one point, the entire front page comprised only stories that in one way or another were related to the hex number. Digg users quickly pointed to the HD DVD sponsorship of Diggnation, the Digg podcast show. Search digg for HD-DVD song lyrics, coffee mugs, shirts, and more for a small taste of the rebellion." Search Google for a broader picture; at this writing, about 283,000 pages contain the number with hyphens, and just under 10,000 without hyphens. There's a song. Several domain names including variations of the number have been reserved. Update: 05/02 05:44 GMT by J : New blog post from Kevin Rose of Digg to its users: "We hear you."
Re:I'd like to say... (Score:5, Interesting)
Who'd have thought, they would use all that Web 2.0 wisdom of the crowds stuff to hide the fact they censor everything.
kdawson, and the old Taco himself, we salute you.
Digg management are full of hypocrites (Score:5, Interesting)
Today it's different for some reason. One of the managers posted a justification on the official blog [digg.com]:
Funny stuff.
Digg is a piece of shit (Score:5, Interesting)
Also, you can get a perm ban from digg if you use the star of david as your "digg icon"... no kidding!
Honestly curious... (Score:5, Interesting)
Digg actually posted a reply to the community on their blog here [digg.com].
What I'm honestly curious about is this: Is this numeric string code copyrighted? Where is the copyright filed, if so? Or is it a trade secret? Do trade secrets need to be filed or declared somehow? Is a trade secret intellectual property that must be removed when a theatening (maybe DMCA) notice is sent?
I'm nowhere near understanding the complexities of the current intellectual property legal codes in the USA, let alone how they actually apply in this situation. All I see is hysteria.
Wikipedia (Score:5, Interesting)
Free Speech Flag (Score:4, Interesting)
Beyond the hex (Score:5, Interesting)
People don't seem to understand that this goes beyond a silly little hex key. The key has been out for months. A new one will come and it will also be broken. This is not about that. This is about consumers finally standing up against the bullshit being fed to them by media giants. They crossed the line today when they forced digg to censor user generated content, not only articles but also comments and somewhat related content.
As a consumer i am sick and tired of getting fabricated excuses as to why i can't play what I've bought wherever the hell i want. NO, i don't care if you keep making up the story that DRM is to protect yourself from piracy. I don't buy it. DRM will be broken no matter what. DRM is there to ensure your revenue stream by controlling where I can play the content. Now you go and censor my news source giving a bullshit excuse that a randomly generated hex number is some how your IP? You install rootkits in my computer, You stop me from using my content I bought the way I want? pretend to own _MY_ hardware? Enough of that bullshit.
This is a revolt [facebook.com] against the greediness and blatant disrespect for the consumer that comes from the mpaa/riaa.
SAVE THE NUMBERS, SAVE THE WORLD. REMEMBER The 1st of MAY.
With Apologies To Allan Sherman (Score:5, Interesting)
At any rate, this is a parody of Allan Sherman's tirade against all-digit dialing, "The Let's All Call Up AT&T And Protest To The President March". By staggering coincidence, the original was inspired by someone posting it in on USENET in the .mp3.comedy group. Weren't me, although my parents turned me onto Mr. Sherman's parodies by giving me their vinyl original that they'd owned since before I was born.
By even more coincidence, you can sing it as either: "Let's all post the Processing Key and fuck AACSLA" March, for rather obvious reasons, or the "Let's all post To D-I-G-G and say 'fark you' to Kevin Rose" March, (on account of every single story on digg.com's front page, as the original poster already linked to in TFA)
By utterly unsurprising coincidence, and like every filk I write here, this parody is in the public domain, and you can sing it however you like, although in this case it'll probably be funnier if you keep the numbers the way they was written.
AACS VERSION:
It's the "Let's all post the processing key and fuck AACSLA!" march!
Watch their lawyers worry and fidget,
Cease and DE-sisting sixteen hex digits!
So let's all post the processing key and fuck AACSLA, march!
So protest! (so protest!)
Do your best! (do your best!)
Let us show them that we post in unity.
If they won't (if they won't!),
Change the rules (change the rules!),
Let's buy our movies from another monopoly!
Let's all post the processing key and fuck AACSLA march.
Let us wake their landsharks from slumber,
Get a pencil, I'll give you their number.
It's Nine, Eff-nine, One-one, Two, Nine-D,
SevenTY-four, Eee-three, Five-B... (dash!)
Dee-eight, four-one, five-six, Cee-five,
Sixty-three, fifty-six, eight-eight... (hyphen!)
And now that you're on the right road,
Don't forget to end with Cee-0h!
Here's to freedom and fair use! 09F9! 1102s!
Watch your HD-DVD! 9D74! E35B!
Let's keep that 16-byte key alive!
D841! 56C5! AACS is totally broke! 6356! 88C0! Hooray!
To arnezami's mental fiber,
We'll erect a triumphal arch!
For the "let's all post the processing key and fuck AACSLA!" march.
And since we're long (about 2 and a half months!) past the point that a parody of the AACS key wouldn't be complete without the
DIGG VERSION [digg.com]:
It's the "Let's all post To D-I-G-G and say 'fark you' to Kevin Rose" march!
Watch him worry, watch as he fidgets,
As his users post sixteen hex digits!
So let's all post to D-I-G-G and say 'fuck you' to Kevin Rose march.
So protest! (so protest!)
Do your best! (do your best!)
Let us show him that we digg in unity.
If he won't (if he won't!),
Change the rules (change the rules!),
Let's take our pageviews to Slashdot's company!
Let's all post to D-I-G-G and say 'fuck you' to Kevin Rose march.
Let us wake him up in his slumber.
Get a pencil, I'll give you his number.
It's Nine, Eff-nine, One-one, Two, Nine-D,
SevenTY-four, Eee-three, Five-B... (dash!)
Dee-eight, four-one, five-six, Cee-five,
Sixty-three, fifty-six, eight-eight... (hyphen!)
And now that you're on the right road,
Don't forget to end with Cee-0h!
Here's to freedom and fair use! 09F9! 1102s!
Watch your HD-DVD! 9D74! E35B!
Let's keep that 16-byte key alive! D841! 56C5!
AACS is totally broke! 6356! 88C0! Hooray!
To arnezami's mental fiber,
We'll erect a triumphal arch!
For the let's all post to D-I-G-G and say 'fuck you' to Kevin Rose march.
And don't make me deal with this "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 35.7)", because it's a long pair of
On-topic comment (Score:5, Interesting)
Whose bright idea was it to use the same 128-bit symmetric key for every DVD ??
NB. Please don't mod this off-topic just because I said it wasn't.
Re:Honestly curious... (Score:3, Interesting)
The DMCA has clauses to protect DRM in addition to adding provisions for protection of copyright (as well as outlining common carrier liability).
From the wikipedia article about DRM:
Cunning Plan? (Score:1, Interesting)
Five thousand 12-year-olds throw a temper tantrum (Score:4, Interesting)
Fark's response... (Score:4, Interesting)
Intriguing. (Score:5, Interesting)
Yet as the grandparent post shows, there are those determined to believe only governments can censor, and there have been many cases where people have attempted to sue companies over first amendment rights. Censorship can happen between any two or more individuals, and you ONLY have rights when it comes to the Government.
MAFIA: You lost. GET OVER IT. (Score:3, Interesting)
1. Write the number and short-short-version on chalkboards around campus (I plan to do this tomorrow).
2. Set an image of it as the background on public computers you use.
3. Start mass-mailings.
4. Post the number anywhere you can in creative ways.
Re:Credibility (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:I'd like to say... (Score:1, Interesting)
Of course they key difference in that case is that Slashdot tried as hard as they reasonably could not to censor a post while Digg takes care of the posts preemptively. Realistically, this is a dangerous position for Slashdot to take so I must give them props for maintaining their convictions knowing that they could be slapped HARD by US courts in this case.
It is wise to note that companies like Google are preemptively censoring for their own protection. To not do so, like Slashdot, is a very dangerous course. Being someone who strongly believes in the freedom of expression (to the extent of John Stewart Mill in On Liberty) I am happy with Slashdot's choice. But this doesn't mean that I expect Slashdot to stay on this course very long (or survive if it does).
It's a number, not "technology" (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:I'd like to say... (Score:2, Interesting)
Just seems like Digg got taken over with by 12 year olds that are posting the key just because they were told not to. What'd be nice is somebody with an actual understanding of AES to write a fully functional libaacs for this. Doom9 has some primitive tools up and running. I'd do it, but I don't have an HDDVD or BluRay player...anybody willing to donate?
The funniest part is that if the MPAA hadn't sent a DMCA notice at all in the first place, this would've just stayed on the Doom9 forums for a while and been a fringe thing...but now it's all over the place. Behold, the power of you, Diggers. Now stop being morons about the whole thing.
Re:Wikipedia (Score:2, Interesting)
Whether or not your point is valid, you shouldn't have been banned for speaking your mind.
Hmm... Imagine, for a moment... (Score:2, Interesting)
Enter, with the scene of a man by the name of Jones talking to another man, named Jack.
Jones: This censorship has gone too far. I've lost my access to the world wide web.
Jack: Why is that?
Jones: I posted something on
Jack:
Jones:
Jack: I see.
Let it be known that even the utterance of this website's location is forbidden in this place, as this zone that is very foreign, and very restricted.
Jack: What did you post?
Jones: A comment to a story about the freedom of speech.
Jack: Was there something incriminating in your comment?
Jones: I just posted "Oh nine, eff nine, eleven,
Enter two men, both dressed in black suits, with equally pitch black sunglasses covering their eyes. Both men look identical.
First Man: Mr. Jones, please come with us.
Jones:
The men each grab one of Jones' arms, and proceed to drag him screaming out of the doorway to the room he and the other man were once sitting in. As Mr. Jones' screams finally die away, the two men accompany Mr. Jones back into the room.
Second Man: Mr. Jones, we appreciate your cooperation in this matter.
A small amount of drool leaks out of Jones' mouth, as the men turn away, and walk out of the door.
Mr. Jones, in another world, has become another silenced voice. However, this man is not as far away as it seems. For as many times as it has been portrayed amoung the media, the popular mass continues to be like Jones current voice, silent and dumbfounded. This reality of a world in which the utterance of a certain string leads to the permanent removal of one's rights may, however, not be as distant as it seems.
They should have learned from Slashdot (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:I'd like to say... (Score:5, Interesting)
Now, Ladies and Gentlemen... (Score:4, Interesting)
http://www.cafepress.com/09f9 [cafepress.com]
Am I the only one that understands why digg.com... (Score:2, Interesting)
It's freaking illegal to post this encryption key. Why is digg losing credibility by removing an illegal post? Would they lose credibility if they removed a post revealing national security secrets? Would they lose credibility by removing posts that reveal trade secrets? Cmon people!
Digg is offline (Score:5, Interesting)
Digg Has Been Taken Down (Score:2, Interesting)
Holy God they did it! (Score:2, Interesting)
just moments ago, I am astounded by the power of people.
Re:Wow...just wow (Score:4, Interesting)
I think the point I'm making is valid -- if they want to claim copyright on a NUMBER, I should be able to claim copyright on my NAME (and trust me, my name is pretty unique). I'm tired of other people buying and selling my NAME. My NAME is my property. And since my parents are dead, that property is mine by proxy.
Either that, or I'll run out right now and copyright the number 12. And then issue DMCA takedown notices to every website, piece of software, TV show, and building elevator that uses the number which is my property.
Re:I'd like to say... (Score:3, Interesting)
"Or use your legally purchased DVD's on your homebrew video server maybe? Or back them up? idjit."
Sure, in the sense that those bongs in the head shops could be used to smoke tobacco. In fact, the employees of said establishments will swear up and down that that's exactly what they're for.
Of all my friends, I know not a single person who's built a "homebrew video server," nor have I ever met anybody who's had a problem with scratching a DVD. On the other hand, I have many friends who enjoy acquiring free movies with BitTorrent.
In short, let's not be disingenuous here: we all know what the primary application will be for the copy protection crack.
Re:P.S. Digg This (Score:5, Interesting)
From the post:
"We hear you, and effective immediately we won't delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.
If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying."
fuckin 'ey, Kevin!
Re:I'd like to say... (Score:4, Interesting)
i don't think digg will forever be a forum for immature posts, but it is still young and what we see now may not be its equilibrium state. though, i sure wouldn't mind if its homepage were always as hilarious as it is right now.
DIGG MOBILE WEBSITE STILL UP - MOD THIS UP! (Score:0, Interesting)
This is the official digg mobile website, which is still working even though the main digg.com site is offline. Don't believe me? [digg.com]
Mod this up!
Re:I'd like to say... (Score:2, Interesting)
The sites are fundementally different in their day to day operation and I argue, should digg return to normality or not be legally blasted out of existence that it is better.
That said, moderation and commentary on slashdot is usually better. But I find digg more appealing because even if the discussion and the filtering of that discussion isn't as good, it's on stories that don't even make it to slashdot or have made it their first.
May both communities continue, and both be free of censorship. Kevin Rose is a dick for allowing that to happen. Michael Sims was a dick, and sorry Zonk, but you need to be fired.
best wishes to all the readers and submitters and moderators who are the real backbone of Internet discussion and will be here whatever the name or format of the site.
Re:I'd like to say... (Score:5, Interesting)
Anytime you have negative PR coming to a large tech company (particularly software companies and the larger the more prevelent the problem) there are dozens of posts defending the company in the comments here that could have come right off an official press release.
If you have ever attended the sales seminars and meetings from these companies you will recognize their material being used both defensively and offensively all over Slashdot. The biggest companies respond to highly moderated negative posts about them even if the story isn't about them. It's pretty clear these companies have full time Slashdotters.
I once put an intentional grammar error in my sig to catch grammar trolls and forced them into ACdom. Maybe now I should do a similar hunt for corporate shills and list the ones I've found in my journal.
Anti-censorship ribbons for your site (Score:5, Interesting)
I started a page for this, here [outshine.com]. It contains ribbons that use 5 colors. The 5 colors are comprised of the "secret" hex code that is being suppressed. Interested parties are free to use these ribbons on their own sites. If you would like to link your ribbon to an explanatory page, I provide one here [outshine.com].
Re:I'd like to say... (Score:1, Interesting)
The only two clear incidents of censorship on slashdot that I remember - the scientology posts that were deleted, and the thread about story moderation - are both quite exceptional;
Ohh... how quickly we forget the interference from VA Linux regarding story choices... and let's not overlook the the secret service demanding the removal of one post, because it discussed how easy it would be to kill the U.S. President.
Re:I'd like to say... (Score:2, Interesting)
My opinion about Slashdot-the-site and Slashdot-the-site's-management still hasn't changed all that much (although the amount of dupes seems to have gone down considerably, at least), but Slashdot-the-community is still nice, and in some ways even seems to have changed for the better - I suppose that all the trolls etc. moved on to Digg (so this comment is actually on-topic now, too!
Re:I'd like to say... (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Am I the only one that understands why digg.com (Score:3, Interesting)
1) Instead of complying with the law and then making a big announcement about how they had to do it even though they didn't want to, they apparently did it silently.
2) Instead of just deleting the posts that were being complained about - heck, instead of just deleting the posts that actually contained the key - they apparently deleted everything relating to the whole thing, including discussions about free speech, censorship and so on that most certainly were not in violation of any law.
3) Instead of just deleting the posts that were being complained about, they also deleted the accounts of the users who made those posts.
4) And while this may just be a rumour, some people have also said that instead of waiting for a proper legal notice, they just deleted those posts when they were asked to by a group who financially supports them in some way (advertising, sponsoring or whatever).
All this shows that the Digg founders had no integrity, no spine, no values. They're reversing their position now, but only because it's becoming abundantly clear that they'd have more to lose if they continued this way.
(To elaborate on that... contrary to what that blog post by the Digg founder says, there really is no risk that Digg will die; rather, they will wait until they actually get a legal notice the proper way, and they will only do what they're legally required to do, which will allow them to say "we tried what we could, but the law is the law". This ultimately will let them keep their community, and in fact may strengthen their reputation, as it creates a new "us vs. them"; instead of "us-the-community vs. Digg", it's now "us-the-community-and-Digg vs. the *AA/DVDCCA/etc". If they continued as they did, on the other hand, they would risk alienating their community; not something that would likely kill them, either, but it'd mean less income and less significance, at least.)
So that's the gist of it. Nobody's upset that they comply with the law (that's what they have to do, after all); what people are upset about is the lack of integrity that shows here.
And from what I hear, there's been grumbling on Digg about censorship and sucking-up to big business for quite a while already, but without there ever having been any real proof, so this may well just have been the final straw.
How very clever.... (Score:2, Interesting)
We're all being duped, I think. This whole thing is just a giant publicity stunt on the part of the HD-DVD consortium. Combine this with WalMart deciding to go HD-DVD-only, i think the tables may very well have turned to HD-DVD's favor.
Re:I'd like to say... (Score:5, Interesting)
Over time people realize that the Republican/Consertive view does have merit too, but by working with people with these different views and understanding that they are not the devil and their views are quite rational. Right now GEN are mostly populated with people with the same views so it serves to reinforce their beliefs so you don't get the other side from people you can trust and thus you stay on your side. I actually grew up in a conservative family and over time I have become more liberal, on many things, Computer Liberalism did peak in college but sense calmed down. But in general I am more of a liberal person then I use to be.
Microsoft doesn't need to me me or anyone to post on a board that their product isn't really that bad anymore, or hey they actually did that part correctly now. or to say I think RMS is too radical for OSS, and disconnected from reality. These are my views from me, I have made them with information I have gained over time, Linking with the values that were taught to me then moderated and manipulated over years of experience, and combining them with Logic to help predict possible. Nor corporate money all the time.
on the BBC (Score:1, Interesting)
You think that's funny.... (Score:3, Interesting)
Way to go, Slashdot.
Re:I'd like to say... (Score:4, Interesting)
HD movies are a replacement for DVD movies. There is a propoganda site explaining copy protection on movies. They claim there is no need for back-up copies as with reasonable care DVD's will last forever.
www.copyprotected.com
Reasonable care and children never mixed.
In both sofware and movies, it's the high usage childrens content that is either broken, missing, or otherwise unplayable. The industry in all their wisdom do not have an exchange program for maltreated shiny discs. With kids, backups and working copies are essential.
Other than the dream of perfectly locked down content with HD, the industry on the other side of their face are admiting that users want to put their purchased movies on their cell phone, media server, PDA, iPod, Zen Vision, etc. just like they want to do with their music.
The major fear of course is the nth copy of the first copy is exactly the same down to the last bit. With video tape and analog cassette copies, each generation of a copy of a copy degrades adding all the defects of noise, dropouts, loss of fideliety, AGC compression, etc so they tolorated LP's copied onto tape to use in your walkman and car stereo.
With the advent of perfect copies of copies, they are desprate to lock down the ability to make the first copyable digital copy. This of course is anti-consumer who is used to making back-up copies of valuable data to prevent loss. To get back-up copies, working copies are naturaly shared.
Notice how nobody bothers making a tape to tape copy of a $5.00 VHS movie? (disregarding Macrovision) When the same moves were $65 and blank VHS tapes were $20 each, piracy was a big problem. (admiting my age, these were a large part of my library) Video stabelizers were the norm to bypass Magnaguard and early Macrovision. The industry needs to get a clue. Nobody takes the time to photocopy a 35 cent daily newspaper to back it up. A $30 movie on the other hand is considered worth backing up.
SONY recently adding more copy protection to their recent DVD's has put me on the ex-consumer list. Until they permanently change their ways, they have lost me.
To their credit, they are sending me a replacement for my DRM'ed copy of Open Season. Hopefully I will be able to install it on my media server for the kids. Acidrip wouldn't even recognise the disk.
If all HD moves were released with retail prices under $6 each, piracy wouldn't be much of a problem. It's less hasle to just go out and pick up a copy.
Here is a clue to increase sales;
1 DROP DRM
2 DROP PRICES
3 RAISE VALUE
4 Enjoy increased volume.
Since they have all of the first 3 wrong, 4 is going the wrong way. Raising quality is only part of raising value. Making it unplayable on many of my systems including media server is a reduction in value. They are walking a tightrope. The RIAA is keeping volume down by dropping DRM and offsetting the potential to raise volume by raising prices. Just how stupid is that? Are they trying to keep volume down?
Hint Cluestick time. Want to increase volume at current prices? DROP DRM, raise quality. Leave the price alone or lower it.
I think the RIAA has enough money. If they didn't, they would do someting that made economic sense instead of trying to game the system.
Re:I'd like to say... (Score:5, Interesting)
it's late and i might be saying something really obvious... but i've convinced myself that slashdot is better because it has been around for so long. the user base has mostly been around for very long and is familiar with the system as well as what possibilities exist to exploit and troll it. ie, it is stable and i always know what i'm getting.
i don't think digg will forever be a forum for immature posts, but it is still young and what we see now may not be its equilibrium state. though, i sure wouldn't mind if its homepage were always as hilarious as it is right now.
Slashdot was great before the idiot hordes of brainless 15 year olds found it (as opposed to the intelligent 15 year old geeks who belong here). Then it sucked while the morons were around. Now it's great again since they've left for digg.
I think your premise is correct, that slashdot established enough of a culture and history of people who know what they're talking about that there was something to revert to after it was (thankfully) no longer the flavor of the month. I don't think digg has that. I think once the kiddies roll over to the next big thing, digg doesn't have enough of an essence to sustain it. What is digg without the kiddies? Just the ability to vote on stories? Idol worship of that Kevin guy? Doesn't seem enough to sustain it. Digg was headed down, but it really jumped the shark when it opened itself to non-tech stories.
I think slashdot owes digg a substantial debt, in that digg took a large number of the morons and made it more than likely that highly moderated posts on slashdot are actually insightful as opposed to insipid.
Re:I did that! (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Fark's response... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Credibility (Score:3, Interesting)
"is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure", or
"has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure" or
or
"is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person's knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure "
(I've elided some excess verbiage)
A Sharpie obviously has a primary purpose other than marking out the data track in a copy protected audio disc. It obviously has significant commerical use besides marking out the data track in a copy protected audio disc. And they're normally sold as markers, not circumvention devices. If you provided someone a Sharpie while touting its value in circumventing audio disc copy protection, you'd be in violation, but otherwise the Sharpie is safe.
This number, on the other hand, has a primary purpose of being used in bypassing HD-DVD protection. And it has no other significant commercial use. So, if it can be considered to be a "product, service, device, component, or part thereof", then providing it falls under the prohibition of DMCA 1201(a)(2) (which covers access to a copyrighted work). I think MPAA et al would probably argue it falls under DMCA 1201(b)(1) (which covers "a right of the copyright owner") as well; they'd claim their scheme was both access protection and copy protection.
Re:I'd like to say...(is pure flamebait) (Score:2, Interesting)
It's one thing to argue from the basis of individual rights, or at least social and medical equavalence with alcohol. But some of the arguments for legalization of pot start to sound like marijuana is the wonder substance, with no side effects and no chance of abuse. Riiiggghhht - let me introduce you to some of my stoner friends from high school, and see what they even remember from 2 years of 3x/day. And what's with the "hemp will save the world" thing? I always get the feeling that, when Woddy Harrelson starts spouting off on hemp, it's simply a catspaw to get into marijuana legalization. Great - but lets be honest about our real goals, shall we?
Re:Digg decides to stand up to the MPAA! (Score:3, Interesting)
If only the government would take this attitude more often.
This is an excellent point... (Score:4, Interesting)
This is an excellent point in favor of legalizing drugs. How often is there contaminantion of a batch of Jim Beam that makes people sick or kills them? Has there been any since Prohibition ended? But moonshine during Prohibition was often dangerous - homemade stills were much more likely to leech lead into the final product. Much like the 'but people steal to buy drugs', it's not a good arguement for keeping it illegal.
Now, the driving/walking under the influence arguement is different - I would believe that more people would die that way. But if other recreational drugs were illegal, would alcohol remain as popular? I'm not sure, really. (IIRC, results from Amesterdam seemed to indicate no - roughly the same total number of people would be getting stoned or drunk, it just shifted the share about.)
Hex code cannot be copyrighted (Score:2, Interesting)
In this case the encryption manufactures are clearly abusing DMCA law by demanding take down of the hex code, witch they have no copyright on, they also cannot call it a tool to break the hddvd / blueray encryption, because it isn't one. At least not the hex code alone. The best play for the people how get those take downs is to file a counter order (or what it is called) in accordance with the DMCA law and turn the game on the encryption manufacture. Old fashion riots are also good way to send a message, online or in the real world. It doesn't matter.
It is also important for the big corps to release that our culture is based on sharing, land, water and so on. Music, movies goes into that also. Because if we didn't share, we would be at war with each other all the time.
I live in a country where DMCA law do not apply so they can't threatend me with it.
Hex: 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0
Also, here is the code in Decimal and Binary.
Decimal: 218497016402258850000
Binary: 1011110110000100000101010110110001010110001101010