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By gonzo.pete on Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Here's a novel story about the controversial set of numbers above.

The aforementioned sequence of digits is the HD-DVD Processing Key for most High Definition movies released to date.
There was uproar recently when a 'cease and desist' letter was sent by the body that oversees the digital rights management technology on high-definition DVDs.
It requested that blogs and websites removed details of a software key that breaks the encryption on HD-DVDs. An order many found contradictory to the very essence of the freedom of the web.
Digg initially removed the information but as quickly as a story was removed more were submitted to take its place. Traffic became so heavy that it caused the site to "collapse" temporarily.

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The code that cracks open the Digital Rights Management, or DRM, of HD DVD has been circulating for months. That's a problem for the owner of the intellectual property on those discs, but it didn't become an issue for many Web 2.0 domains until yesterday when a digg.com user posted a link to an article that contained the code. The article was then dugg more than 10,000 times.

Posted 2nd May2007 By Geek.com
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So anyway where was I, oh yeah. Not content with having the code sitting on a Blog/Site that could simply be shut down. This revolutionist (power to the people and all that) has permanently marked his body with a tattoo of the Processing key.

Dedication to the cause I think you'll agree.

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