The decoding key for AACS, the encryption used by HD-DVDs and Blu-Ray discs, has been discovered and published all over the 'net. It is 16 hexadecimal numbers (09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b -d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0). Basically, it is just 16 numbers.
Some sites such as digg.com have been removing any posts that include the number and blacklisting users who try to post stories with the number within ( See here for further background). Wikipedia.org has removed the pages created that contained the number and locked any pages that might have users wanting to add the number to them.
Why is this? These websites are afraid of being sued by entities such as the MPAA (www.mpaa.org).
This begs the question, does a US company should have exclusive rights to a number?
Scary stuff...
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