John brought this up on Cranky Geeks the other day. Just figured I’d update folks on the latest from the DRM-Dolts.
Bloggers “crossed the line” when they posted a software key that could break the encryption on some HD-DVDs, the AACS copy protection body has said.
Tsk, tsk.
A row erupted on the internet after popular website Digg began taking down pages that its members had highlighted were carrying the key. The website said it was responding to legal “cease and desist” notices from the Advanced Access Content System.
Digg’s users responded by posting ever greater numbers of websites with the key, and the site eventually sided with its users.
Michael Ayers, chair of the AACS business group, said tracking down everyone who had published the keys was a “resource intensive exercise”. A search on Google shows almost 700,000 pages have published the key.
With the same mentality as the RIAA, my guess is that these killer klowns will probably pick out several prominent blogs and sue their butts for publishing the key – presuming everyone else will run and hide. All their problems will go away. God will smile on NEC, Toshiba, blah, blah, blah.
Its pretty funny cause bloggers along with most comment systems on the internet take a invulnerability kick on stuff like this.
That would be funny if they could actually get them all in court and watch their faces be the complete opposite of their jubilation online.
Reality is a bitch.
doubtful they can get “Every single blogger” among others
#5. Total agreement. and very mature of many of them to motherf*ck Kevin Rose for trying to enforce digg’s ToS.
quiet a brain trust they have going on over there. the “wisdom of crowds” conclusively (albeit inadvertently) disproved.
#22. that, of course, should be “quite” not “quiet.”
#1 and #19 sure comes across as a stick-in-the-mud twit.
#19, James,
I agree with your logic and your point.
The only right the AACS really has is to revoke the key. They’ve done that. Threats about posting the key are incredibly stupid. I’m awaiting my revocation letter any day now.
I haven’t been on msnbc for a decade