LOLZ, DRM
AACS (the content protection system for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray movies) has been cracked. Cory Doctorow's analysis is right on: DRM costs years and billions and is rendered totally useless by some hackers in a week or so of spare time.
To make the story more amusing, the AACS is now sending bogus legal threats against everyone who posts a number. Specifically, this number:
9-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
Amusingly, Digg (a popular social link-sharing site) tried to censor the story, but gave in after that provoked a virtual riot from its users.
Update: The number is now on over 700,000 webpages and has sparked a variety of artistic renditions, including this song. It's really hard for anyone to suppress information on the internet once it starts to spread.
To make the story more amusing, the AACS is now sending bogus legal threats against everyone who posts a number. Specifically, this number:
9-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
Amusingly, Digg (a popular social link-sharing site) tried to censor the story, but gave in after that provoked a virtual riot from its users.
Update: The number is now on over 700,000 webpages and has sparked a variety of artistic renditions, including this song. It's really hard for anyone to suppress information on the internet once it starts to spread.