BBC News and Times Online are both reporting that the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) is planning to pursue legal action against those who have published the controversial HD DVD processing key hex code to web services and blogs, including those involved in the recent Digg rebellion. Google currently shows 1,430,000 results for the key. The Streisand effect is now in full swing…
This is what the Digg community has to say about it. Things are going to get really ugly. Here’s more coverage from Boing Boing.
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Finally, a solution for the over abundance of lawyers in the US!
yeah… good luck with that one
At Boing boing it is said HD-DVD is “absolutely not broken.” Then what is this fuzz about? On the other hand I think it is totally unethical suing someone for publishing a hex number….
Here’s an interesting way to mess with the AACS: why not translate the Hex Code into something else? If it’s hexidecimal (hopefully I’m not displaying any ignorance here), the how about translating it into another base number system, and posting it that way? Would it still be illegal? How about encrypting the information with a freeware tool, and then posting the encrypted file *and* the key to un-encrypt it? That’s going to add whole layers of complexity to any legal argument that could be made!