[LINK] HD-DVD and Digg/Wiki

[Adam Todd]

Now why didn't they just simply TradeMark the Key string!  Then 
no-one could use it without a licence!

Duh!

Incidentally there are 24,900 references to the HEX code cached in 
google and plenty of sites talking about it and giving the key.  So what.

The "Motion Picture" industry isn't doing anything to help protect my 
own films, so why should I care about theirs!

Not to mention that there are a few people using the key as 
signatures in all their postings.

One person has very cleverly bit shifted the key by one bit.  Hence 
it is no longer the key, and quite lawful to express :)

one person has changed all the zeros to Capital O's hence it is no 
longer a hex key.  Ahhh the morphesis of the worlds intelligent :)

How about someone AND it forward and backwards :)  Or MD5 it and share it :)

At 07:53 PM 2/05/2007, Ivan Trundle wrote:
>Linkers
>
>An interesting phenomenon is occurring right at this minute in the
>world of online collaboratively-edited websites: take a look at
>digg.com (or even wikipedia) to see how a democratic news sites react
>when the owner threatens to remove posts, block or delete users, or
>otherwise protect the interests of the site due to the user-provided
>site content.
>
>The code-cracking of HD-DVD is news in itself, and the voice of
>50,000 Digg users created an avalanche of complaints and completely
>flooded the RSS channels with the code.
>
>Kevin Rose, owner and founder of Digg.com, is very unhappy about the
>voice of the many, to the point of saying, after attempting to delete
>all references to the code, that "...we won't delete stories or
>comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the
>consequences might be. If we lose, then what the hell, at least we
>died trying."
>
>iT
>
>digg.com, if you're interested...
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