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Censoring a Number
Rudd-O writes "Months after successful discovery of the HD-DVD processing key, an unprecedented campaign of censorship, in the form of DMCA takedown notices by the MPAA, has hit the Net. For example Spooky Action at a Distance was killed. More disturbingly, my story got Dugg twice, with the second wave hitting 15,500 votes, and today I found out it had simply disappeared from Digg. How long until the long arm of the MPAA gets to my own site (run in Ecuador) and the rest of them holding the processing key? How long will we let rampant censorship go on, in the name of economic interest?" How long before the magic 16-hex-pairs number shows up in a comment here?
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
Finally a use the Anonymos Cowards ;)
40% Funny, 40% Insightful, 40% Informative, 40% Dolomite
http://www.google.com/search?q=%2209+F9+11+02+9D+7 4+E3+5B+D8+41+56+C5+63+56+88+C0%22
Causation can cause correlation
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09
Oh nine, eff nine, one one oh too!
Nine dee, seven four, eee three, five bee.
Dee ate for one,
Five six,
See five,
Six three, five six, ate eight sea oh!
http://www.google.com/search?q=09+F9+11+02+9D+74+E 3+5B+D8+41+56+C5+63+56+88+C0
Results 1 - 10 of about 279,000 for 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
I'm not sure if these benefit the EFF, but you can get it on a T-shirt:i rt/#more-1482
http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/30/09-f9-11-02-t-sh
http://www.cafepress.com/nonlogic.100812817
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
The score so far:
Posts mentioning the infamous hex 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0: 25
Posts remarking how they have the same number as their luggage combination: 5
Stay tuned, folks, the game ain't over yet!
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
I also hear there is a website devoted 2 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 by some guy in Scottlande or someplace. They say he's really crazy 'cuz his wife went into labor the day discovered 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 an she wouldn't let him look at 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 so when they got home from the hospital he cut her up and buried her in teh yard and then ate his own baby with some chips, oh delicious chips. So they caught him but he managed to memorize 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 and smuggled it into prison with him and the other convicts tried too take it away from him in the shower so he cut them up and ate them to, in fact he went on a rampage and ate all th prison guards with some chips, oh delicious chips. And then he sat down at th warden's desk and stared at 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 only stopping when he had 2 pee in a potted plant in th corner of the room. After memorizing 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 he found th prison surrounded by teh Army and there was a guy on a bullhorn named Dr. Quartermass who was telling him 2 put down teh fork and come out with his hands up. But he managed to escape through the sewers and they couldn't catch him but they found his bag of chips, oh delicious chips. They say he's still hiding too this day in th mountains of Scotchland, th Alpes, updating his website with 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 every day. They also say of your are backpacking in the Alpes that you'd better not carry any chips, oh delicious chips. They say they'll never catch him 2 because there are laws that protect mountain people and the police are scared too go up there. But he has 2 come to a city once a month on teh seventh day and he breaks into a house that has a computer and he types 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 over and over and he eats anyone at home with chips, oh delicious chips. So the police are hoping to catch him when he goes 2 the city but so far he's eaten over 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 people and 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 bags of chips, oh delicious chips so it seems like there is no stopping him. You may think I'm making all this up but it's the truth and I know it cause I asked my friend who works at the MPAA and it said it's true so it is.
In SOVIET RUSSIA, 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 censors you!
How about in everybody's sig line on Slashdot as protest?
Now what was that number again?
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Nonono. You're missing the point. The people who can break DRM are the ones who have the movies. The movies are mind-wrenchingly bad and will cause your brain to explode. The upshot is that only the brains of pirates will be destroyed. Don't you see? This is the most cunning plan Baldrick has come up with yet!
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Look at old posts. I've been using that exact sequence of hex digits as my signature on posts since the beginning.
Indeed, it has silently disappeared from Digg again, for the second time.
:-(
I think basically this turn of events unfolded, although I might not have got the numbers 100% accurate yet!
9 hackers looking into poor security,
249 MPAA lawyers browsing porn in the silence before the storm.
17 sites spreading the news,
2 sites surviving the mass visits.
157 drops of sweat down the AACS team's cheeks,
116 frantic phone calls buzzing in the offices.
227 lawyers starting up Plan B,
There's now 91 sites to shut down.
$216 sent as bribe for the Digg staff,
still 65 sites still up and running.
86 shutdown reasons discovered by abusing the DMCA,
197 prayers one will work.
99 sites now publishing the keys... oh wait!
86 managers finding the case is slipping out of control.
136 confused MPAA members mumbling about HD-DVD keys,
192 reasons found to keep trying to stifle sales.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Astonishingly, the next prime after that is only 31 away, so our famous number can also be represented as
It is also very interesting because it is also equal to the product of the following prime numbers:
Truthfully, when was the last time you saw any remotely similar number? Never, right? We better record this for mathematical posterity!!! :-)
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Why don't I see this on your SourceForge project site then ... ?
/(bb|[^b]{2})/ , that is the question;
Wow, it really works!
One problem though, I used it to watch attack of the clones, hoping to see some Natalie Portman hawtness, and was instead rendered impotent by Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen.
Turns out, the key only works for actors, and does nothing for actresses.
Try not to take me more seriously than I take myself.
(Oops let me try that again lol)
You say "09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0"
I say "13256278887989457651018865901401704640"
Oh nine,
Frank nine,
One one,
Oh Two.
Nine dog seven four Edward three,
Five big dogs ate fourty-one.
Fifty six, Charlie five,
Six three.
Fifty six and a pair of eights.
Charlie naught.
Have gnu, will travel.
I'd like to see this on the next start sequence of the Simpsons! Bart writing on the blackboard:
...
I must not write 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
I must not write 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
I must not write 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
I must not write 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
Someone use CSS to encrypt the key... would be impossible to break then!
I can't say I envy the poor newborn kid whose Slashdot-reading father is just now getting inspired as to what the baby's name should be.
I'm a dreamer, the world is my playpen. But hey, I'm a serious person, I can't dream all the time.
What I find great is Slashdot have the story tagged with the code, and Digg are getting buried because they pulled stuff about the code.
Always knew Slashdot was the better site.
It should say "Registered Hex Offender".