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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?

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  1. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 by freakmn · · Score: 5, Informative

    I was amazed at the quickness of the censors, when I clicked on the link here, and got the "Nothing to see here, please move along." message. I've often seen people say that they got that message, but was never quite sure if it actually happened. This time it did. In cooperation with the summary, here's the number: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

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  2. Source by W2k · · Score: 4, Informative

    I would post the processing key, but I'll link to the original posting instead:

    http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=121866&pag e=6

    I recommend interested slashdotters read the thread, there's a lot of interesting context to the discovery.

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  3. Hex Art by MythMoth · · Score: 4, Informative

    I liked this version...

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  4. Re:Not very long... by JensenDied · · Score: 3, Informative

    actually it was posted before this article even came up. http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=233015&cid= 18945309

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    09:F9:11:02 - 9D:74:E3:5B - D8:41:56:C5 - 63:56:88:C0

  5. I went to register the domain... by Saint+Aardvark · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...and I was too late. However, .net and .org are still open...

  6. Re:Not very long... by OECD · · Score: 4, Informative

    Weird how those numbers get pulled from Digg ...

    There's a very interesting story in the Health section of Digg. It's about improving your memory by memorizing a certain sequence of alphanumeric characters...

    I wonder how long that one will last.

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  7. Re:Not very long... by SL+Baur · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's been done before. Remember the RSA in 1 line of perl .signatures and t-shirts from the 90's?

  8. More Information at chillingeffects.org by Nosajjason · · Score: 4, Informative

    More information about AACS's (Access Content System Licensing Administrator, LLC) take down notices can be found at: http://www.chillingeffects.org/index.cgi

    and specifically: http://www.chillingeffects.org/anticircumvention/n otice.cgi?NoticeID=7180

    They give an example of AACS's take down notices and pretty good legal analysis of its contents.

  9. Re:Tag It! by Ralph+Yarro · · Score: 4, Informative

    Tags can contain numbers but mustn't start with a number. It won't give you an error but you'll see that it doesn't "remember" your tag like it normally would. Don't think the dollar sign works at the beginning of a tag either either. So the tag needs to be something like : hex09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0

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  10. The T-Shirt by AoT · · Score: 5, Informative
  11. Re:Not very long... by Adam+Zweimiller · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, they are both posted on this page of a Doom9 thread. Look for the PDF's attached by Mistar Muffin, that's me.

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  12. Re:Not very long... by James_Duncan8181 · · Score: 4, Informative

    A newly registered domain: http://09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63.com/ And yes, I own it. *grins*

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  13. Kevin Rose Response by loconet · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is Kevin Rose's response as to why they have been deleting the stories over at Digg. Will Slashdot follow as well? If not why or why not?

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    1. Re:Kevin Rose Response by thefekete · · Score: 3, Informative

      There is a second post from Kevin entitled: "Digg This: 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0"

      But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you've made it clear. You'd rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. 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.
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