Spread this number
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0. Wanna know what’s so important about it?
Things are getting worse. We’re now being reamed by the proposal for a new crime: attempted copyright infringement. Read this to learn about it and other dangers to culture, then Digg that story. And here’s a detailed, illustrated account of HD-DVD night, as seen from the perspective of this weblog and the major technology news sites.
The movie industry is threatening Spooky Action at a Distance for publishing that number, specifically with copyright infringement.
I had no idea a number could be copyrighted.
Anyhow, what is it? From the site:
It’s the HD-DVD Processing Key for most movies released so far. I was not aware that a string of numbers and letters was copyrightable. Perhaps its just my ignorance but it seems that someone is abusing the DMCA again.
This means the (admittedly long) number is precisely the key you need in order to decrypt and watch HD-DVD movies in Linux (oh, okay, maybe software is also required). And the fact that it’s out there, spreading like wildfire, is killing the types at the movie studios right now.
Now, even if this number stopped working (and it will, thanks to the revocation procedures in HD-DVD’s encryption scheme) or if it were a hoax, the decryption system has already been figured out and is implemented in a software program called BackupHDDVD.
We did it with DVDs and DeCSS, and today I can use my trusty MPlayer to play any DVD movie. We will eventually (rather soon) view HD-DVDs in Linux as well (because the codecs are already there, even if they are illegal in some countries).
Let’s show them no amount of DMCA will stop us.
Current events
Oh, do you crave for source code? Let the Doom9 forums answer your prayers. If you’d like an explanation in news format, WIRED may be what you were looking for.
Apologies to Diggers worldwide for the downtime. The traffic storm forced me to turn certain functionality off, yet I’m still seeing more than 40 hits per second at the console. I don’t want to sound like a tinfoil hatter, but Digg censored my initial submission and nixed my user account (RuddO). Fortunately, charitable souls posted a new link. The Digg button at the right should work now. Thanks and keep the hits coming.
Alert! Digg.com is issuing 404 Not Found on all of its pages. Please confirm this independently, and keep spreading the word through other means. Everything is back to normal at Digg, but the original story just vanished.
People at the Digg story are suggesting a Googlebomb with the words HD-DVD and BluRay pointing to this story. Do Googlebombs still work?
Digg censored the second story submission again, and all others as well. For the record, the story was censored at around 15700 Diggs, and we suspect it broke several records. Anyway, the story got propelled to Reddit’s front page and to Del.icio.us popular, so it’s reaching people steadily — all that’s left now is to be Slashdotted. I’ll publish an article telling the graphical story later today.
Slashdot got me. Crap. Okay, we were down for 15 minutes, and I had to teach myself Squid to front the immense volume of traffic I was getting. Traffic’s still high, but Squid is fronting everything so it’s considerably snappier than before.
HD-DVD Key. Thanks for linking to us (us being me)!
The Pirate Bay got me too. Fifty, sixty requests per second. Go, go, go, Squid!
The specs of the server — and why it slowed down
tobey.rudd-o.com runs on a Xen virtual host that shares a 64-bit processor on one of the North America nodes rented to me by GPLHost. Specs:
- 512 MB RAM. Currently, 70 MB are used from the swap file.
- 1 Mbit uplink. Apparently this has no effect because I’m serving stuff at 2 or 3 Mbit.
- 10 GB disk. Mostly full of log files.
- Complex setup. Three sites powered by Turbocharged WordPress, using a custom Magazine template, accelerated by WP-Cache (see optimization link in the second paragraph), on top of Apache (15 processes, each 20 MB of RSS memory), proxied by Squid (I enslaved him a few hours ago — but he’s feeling juuust fine, he just told me) to avoid the cost of serving static content with Apache.
Contention issues slowed this site down for two days:
- First, it was memory (too many Apache processes), it swapped, so I had to scale back processes.
- Then it was the database (complex queries to lay out the section pages and popular posts in this fully dynamic WordPress template). WP-Cache relieved this problem.
- The second Digg wave required me to turn two plugins that caused additional dynamic objects to be loaded via HTTP (that was easy, a
chmod 000did the trick). Solved (mostly). - Slashdot, Reddit and del.icio.us killed the site again. Now, the problem was CPU: Apache couldn’t generate dynamic content fast enough to let other Apache processes serve static content, and, as you know, no stylesheet = no Web page. I had to teach myself Squid fairly quickly and front the site with it.
- The amount of comments in this page. Apache + PHP were maxing out the CPU every time this page was requested (it’s dynamic — cached but dynamic). I temporarily disabled comment display, then got help from eAccelerator through Damien of GPLHost, and that took care of the CPU issues.
Took care of the problems and, apparently, this site is now network-bound, because the CPU looks kinda busy, the load is high (but not due to swapping), and the site went from serving 1.1 requests per second to 55. Hat tip to GPLHost for helping me out.
Tomorrow, I’ll publish the exclusive, illustrated (pics, videos) story of the censorship controversy and the struggles to keep this site up for two days. Yes, I’ve documented the whole process. Subscribe or come back to the front page tomorrow evening.
April 30th, 2007 at 19:46
digg censored this!
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Spread_this_number_Now
April 30th, 2007 at 20:20
Yes, Digg censored my account, they said I’m abusing the system. I don’t understand why; for the record, I haven’t abused it.
April 30th, 2007 at 21:09
Conspiracy theory? I don’t know, but I am sure about something: the repost by someone else in Digg is killing my site. Over 2000 diggs in 30 minutes.
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Spread_This_Number_Again
April 30th, 2007 at 21:27
Wow, i think the people working for digg took down the site, im getting a 404 from their homepage. The digg button doesnt even work. Last time i checked the story had 3500+ diggs within an hour of reaching the frontpage.
April 30th, 2007 at 21:33
It would seem that the digg homepage isn’t working.
April 30th, 2007 at 21:42
[…] 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 […]
April 30th, 2007 at 22:39
http://digg.com/design/Support_Freedom_The_HD_DVD_Signature
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/54370233/
April 30th, 2007 at 22:46
Wow! Fight the power, and prove DRM technologies NEVER WORK!!!
April 30th, 2007 at 22:46
[…] Source […]
April 30th, 2007 at 22:51
hd-dvd bluray
April 30th, 2007 at 23:17
Haha, looks like Digg suffered from the Digg effect itself.
April 30th, 2007 at 23:55
[…] http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/04/30/spread-this-number/ http://duggmirror.com/linux_unix/Spread_this_number_Now/ http://digg.com/linux_unix/Spread_This_Number_Again Posted in Tech. […]
May 1st, 2007 at 0:44
Yes, as far as I know Google bombs still work quite well. I took the liberty of bombing you per the digg request, I used the keywords HD-DVD and blueray, only time will tell…and I’m sure you will NOT mind all that traffic seeing your adsense!
May 1st, 2007 at 1:06
About google bombs:
No, they don’t work in the original sense, which is when the target page has nothing to do with the keywords (as far as content).
So:
Yes, it will work in this case.
Yes, it also works if you include the keywords in the query part of the URL, since that is considered content.
To be extra sure, use both though. Bomb this page, with the keywords HD-DVD and Blu-ray.
http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/04/30/spread-this-number/?hd-dvd&blu-ray
May 1st, 2007 at 1:07
While I agree that this number can hardly be copyrighted, all digital data (like a DVD) is stored as a huge number of 0s and 1s. Together, when interpreted as binary, these form a number. Essentially a number can be copyrighted just as much as any other form of digital data can (text, movies, images, music).
May 1st, 2007 at 1:31
[…] Update4: its all here: HD-DVD, Blu-ray. […]
May 1st, 2007 at 1:56
Google bombing works if the page refering to is relevant for those keywords.. But bluray and hddvd are very competive keywords so you’ll need a lot inbound links with those keywords.. Would be cool though ranking #1 on hddvd or bluray
May 1st, 2007 at 2:06
HD-DVD Bluray
May 1st, 2007 at 2:15
[…] on Digg and the story has just hit 10k diggs, which is very unusual even for a digg story. This is the article that the digg links […]
May 1st, 2007 at 2:42
Wow–clicking on the “Spooky Action at a Distance” link at the top shows that the blog has already been deleted. It’s like some spooky action took place, distantly.
May 1st, 2007 at 2:53
[…] Anscheinend ist dies der Schlüssel zum gucken von HD-DVD’s unter Linux. mehr… […]
May 1st, 2007 at 3:33
[…] read more […]
May 1st, 2007 at 3:52
[…] For information, please visit this site. […]
May 1st, 2007 at 3:54
[…] The Internet is all about Links. Recent news said, that there are companies that threaten Google to remove all links related to the fall of AACS. So link while you still can: http://rudd-o.com/ […]
May 1st, 2007 at 4:23
I will spread it like herpes.
May 1st, 2007 at 4:24
[…] http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/04/30/spread-this-number/ http://digg.com/linux_unix/Spread_This_Number_Again […]
May 1st, 2007 at 4:32
[…] More info here […]
May 1st, 2007 at 4:35
[…] k. thx. bye. […]
May 1st, 2007 at 6:24
Googlebombs indeed still work, as long as the page is relevant and contains the keywords. So this certainly would work.
I just created a cafepress shop for those that want to spread the number offline as well. http://www.cafepress.com/09f911029d
May 1st, 2007 at 6:30
Google bomb may still work, but it probably won’t be long before Google realised that and takes it down. I presume the HD/DVD industry may well be aware to divert from this direction in the future. This may just go down in the history some time.
May 1st, 2007 at 7:11
[…] 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 […]
May 1st, 2007 at 7:40
[…] 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 is the HD-DVD processing key you can use to decrypt and play most HD-DVD movies in Linux. Read about why I’m spreading this number. […]
May 1st, 2007 at 7:41
Seems whatever safeguard they come up with, it’s barely temporary. Thanks for sharing!!
May 1st, 2007 at 7:45
[…] source […]
May 1st, 2007 at 7:45
[…] More information at the link. […]
May 1st, 2007 at 7:50
[…] More information at the link. […]
May 1st, 2007 at 8:07
[…] of stuff of Reddit if you’d like more information, this place is a good one to start if you’re thinking of how you too can personally join Al Qaeda and […]
May 1st, 2007 at 8:36
[…] Spread this number: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 […]
May 1st, 2007 at 9:03
[…] more, see here and here. The second link is an account of how the key was recovered by the guy who did it. Spread […]
May 1st, 2007 at 9:05
[…] page linked below, which contains links to many other places where you can find this information. Link (Thanks, […]
May 1st, 2007 at 9:06
und dann auch noch wirlich schlechtes Deutsch
your german is really bad, the “Lebenslauf” is laughable..
May 1st, 2007 at 9:13
Oh my god, digg deleted the story at around 15570 digs… Idiots.
G.
May 1st, 2007 at 9:16
[…] be upset, but surprised, if I’m asked to remove this post because, apparently, you can copyright a number. If that’s the case, should I go for 1? Actually I think 0 is more in my […]
May 1st, 2007 at 9:16
Looks like that Digg page is pulled (right after I dugg it, too.)
May 1st, 2007 at 9:26
To show the stupidity of these MPAA’s claims to the general public, I think it’s more important to emphasize the decimal form of the number. Emphasize that the MPAA is trying to copyright 13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,640. That looks completely absurd, even to people who know nothing about computers or DVDs.
Shameless plug — I mirrored the number here: http://www.colinm.org/blog/copyrighting-numbers
May 1st, 2007 at 9:36
[…] Spread This Number By Richard Barton From:http://rudd-o.com/ […]
May 1st, 2007 at 9:50
[…] You know what my favorite numbers are? 9, 249, 17, 2, 157, 116, 227, 91, 216, 65, 86, 197, 99, 86, 136, and 192 of course! But don’t tell anyone, because that string of decimal numbers is copyright 2007, Jemal Cole. In hexadecimal, they belong to somebody else. […]
May 1st, 2007 at 10:00
The digg story is gone!!!
May 1st, 2007 at 10:03
Digg this NOW
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_DVD_Encryption_Key
May 1st, 2007 at 10:36
nice
May 1st, 2007 at 11:23
and digg ban a lot of users also
May 1st, 2007 at 11:43
[…] Spread This Number […]
May 1st, 2007 at 11:53
For any digg users getting sick of getting banned talking about this story, or the subsequent censorship of this story and users.
” Digg is on a campaign of widespread user and story censorship. http://reddit.com/info/1mgig/comments“
We can probably talk there without getting banned, they still have the original stories up.
May 1st, 2007 at 12:05
[…] Rudd-O.com försöker filmindustrin hindra nyckelns spridning på internet. man hänvisar till dmca-lagen - […]
May 1st, 2007 at 12:20
[…] 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 […]
May 1st, 2007 at 12:31
wow this is the greatest news I’ve heard all month
May 1st, 2007 at 12:52
http://digg.com/linux_unix/How_I_got_banned_from_Digg
May 1st, 2007 at 13:09
[…] 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 […]
May 1st, 2007 at 13:10
Why shouldn’t a string of letters and numbers be copyrightable? On that same premise, why are digital songs copyrightable - or any digital information for that matter - as that is merely a string of 1’s and 0’s.
May 1st, 2007 at 13:17
[…] http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/04/30/spread-this-number/ […]
May 1st, 2007 at 13:34
Johnathan:
What creative expression is in that number?
May 1st, 2007 at 13:59
Numbers cannot be copyrighted. This is why Intel went from using model numbers (IE. 386) to Names (IE. Pentium).
May 1st, 2007 at 14:04
@Copywrong:
You’re mistaken. Intel went to the new naming scheme because he could not trademark the old names. That has nothing to do with copyright.
To everyone else: the deal is not that the number is copyrighted, but that spreading it is considered something akin to contributory copyright infringement by the DMCA, because it’s part of a technological measure with substantial infringing uses.
May 1st, 2007 at 14:19
Grow a pair and tell these hollywood companies to go fuck themselves.
If you actually have the physical DVD in your hands then if you decide to break the AACS on it then its fair use and a freedom of speech issue. Someone should try fighting the DMCA on that angle.
May 1st, 2007 at 14:37
http://digg.com/health/Train_your_memory
Digg it up! It is a disguised link to the number. Let see how long it takes for digg to spot it.
May 1st, 2007 at 14:40
[…] a HD-DVD key got discovered (or leaked), and it’s going around the great Internet. Several websites […]
May 1st, 2007 at 14:41
Hi, the article with about 15,700 Diggs was my copy of YOUR story. I have a copy of the whole article, and it’s on my site.
http://www.cjmillisock.com/2007/05/how-i-got-banned-from-digg.html
May 1st, 2007 at 14:43
[…] More importantly: can someone copyright a freaking number? Read rudd-o’s Spread this number post and find out why 0×09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 is so […]
May 1st, 2007 at 14:44
I’ve put up aacspk.info as a permanent location for this number, as inspired by the goings-on of Digg. Feel free to link to this anywhere, it’s not coming down.
May 1st, 2007 at 14:46
[…] un ojo a Spread this number, y enlaza si quieres la siguiente imagen que acabo de encontrarme en el […]
May 1st, 2007 at 15:10
[…] More info […]
May 1st, 2007 at 15:29
Looks like digg doesn’t like your website. If you try to submit a new story with your address you get this:
URL blocked
This URL has been reported by users to host illegal or restricted content and cannot be submitted at this time.
May 1st, 2007 at 15:35
[…] You would think HD-DVD and BluRay folks would have learned from the DVD CSS fiasco. more details from rudd-o.com […]
May 1st, 2007 at 15:52
Just posted a couple interesting comments from Slashdot on my homepage.
May 1st, 2007 at 16:03
It gets better. Digg founders Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson actually took sponsorship money from HD DVD last year…
http://texyt.com/Digg+founders+took+HD-DVD+sponsorship+00071
via
http://reddit.com/goto?id=1mj8f
May 1st, 2007 at 16:03
at the mercy of my bandwidth, though it’s only 4k:
http://www.09f9.com
if anyone feels like hosting that file if ahem something happens, please contact me:
09f91102@gmail.com
May 1st, 2007 at 16:05
It gets better. Digg founders Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson actually took sponsorship money from HD DVD last year…
http://texyt.com/Digg+founders+took+HD-DVD+sponsorship+00071
via
http://reddit.com/goto?id=1mj8f
May 1st, 2007 at 16:08
[…] Source […]
May 1st, 2007 at 16:19
You just got slashdotted
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/01/1935250
May 1st, 2007 at 16:19
does digg follow 302/301? if not here is a link: http://s5h.net/u?66
May 1st, 2007 at 16:20
Who volunteers to submit this interesting new story to Digg (they banned my IP after the last one). I mean, Kevin Rose always says he wants to get the hottest news on Digg, right?
http://texyt.com/Digg+founders+took+HD-DVD+sponsorship+00071
Digg fights user revolt over HD-DVD ban – Digg founders took HD-DVD sponsorship.
The founders of Digg.com – which has been rocked by an unprecedented user revolt over the release of an HD-DVD decryption code – accepted sponsorship from the organization behind HD-DVD last year.
Episodes of the DiggNation video show were sponsored by the HD DVD Promotion Group. DiggNation is produced by Revision3, a company run by Digg founders, Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose. Rose is also a co-host of the DiggNation show. The image below shows the HD DVD logo displayed at the beginning of one such episode.
May 1st, 2007 at 16:29
Bad censorship on Digg…
Well, I suppose this sort of thing is inevitable. It’s disappointing though.
Seems like a page with a key to unlock HD-DVD’s was dugg pretty heavily earlier today. In an unprecedented move, Digg responded with full content-based censorsh…
May 1st, 2007 at 16:37
להפיץ את המספר הזה בכמה שיותר אתרים…
נא להפיץ את המספר הזה: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 . למי שלא יודע או שמע זה המיספר שמפצח את ההגנה של HDDVD…
May 1st, 2007 at 16:42
[…] Spread this number • Rudd-O.com […]
May 1st, 2007 at 16:54
For those that forgot the key.. http://www.hddvdkey.com
May 1st, 2007 at 16:54
[…] O Tal post original que continha a chave e que pelos vistos sobrevive ainda por estar alojado algures no Ecuador está aqui. […]
May 1st, 2007 at 16:56
My website link is a backup of said number on a high-traffic-capable server. Go nuts! — CORRUPT, Inc.
May 1st, 2007 at 17:01
Send an eCard of that famous Hex Number. (3rd eCard on the page)
http://www.brainwrench.com/ecards/categories/protest.php
May 1st, 2007 at 17:03
I posted it in GIF form on my blog, but I didn’t specify what it is. Do you think my site can still be shut down for that?
May 1st, 2007 at 17:08
09ck F9ck 11ck 02ck 9Dck 74ck E3ck 5Bck D8ck 41ck 56ck C5ck 63ck 56ck 88ck C0ck
May 1st, 2007 at 17:15
[…] the MPAA are abusing US copyright law to try to remove all references to the HD-DVD processing key - published by Arnezami - from the […]
May 1st, 2007 at 17:16
The number is spread via http://www.locimotive.de/
Linux. Freedom. Sex. That’s all I want.
May 1st, 2007 at 17:19
And if they can copyright 13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,640, can they also extend it to 13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,639 + 1, or 13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,641 - 1?
Where does the madness stop I wonder?
May 1st, 2007 at 17:21
fuck digg
May 1st, 2007 at 17:22
[…] 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0. […]
May 1st, 2007 at 17:25
Presumably if this number had happened to be the hexadecimal equivalent of pi carried out to 16 digits, all the math textbooks in the world would have to be rewritten and it would become a felony to draw a perfect circle.
May 1st, 2007 at 17:46
Go apache! Go Squid!
May 1st, 2007 at 17:53
[…] 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 […]
May 1st, 2007 at 17:56
Go Apache, go Squid! Maybe you could try that neat erlang-based web server?
Could you post the specs on the hardware howling rudd-o.com? And, some munin/monit/nagios/ganglia/webalizer/wonderlizer graphs would be nice too! 
May 1st, 2007 at 17:59
This site is now also covered on the front page of The Pirate Bay. Just telling because it tend to draw some traffic too.
May 1st, 2007 at 18:04
Hey look, digg killed me too cause I submitted a story about your story!
Read it here http://mirror.sam-network.com
This is madness!!
May 1st, 2007 at 18:06
The entertainment industry is Jewish.
Digg is owned by Jews.
Just saying.
May 1st, 2007 at 18:21
[…] quite a little uproar going on about the release of a certain hex key that can be used to decrypt HD DVD movies. […]
May 1st, 2007 at 18:21
[…] heard we can’t blog about 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 ! That true […]
May 1st, 2007 at 18:22
I’m not one to be paranoid. (Im the one who suggested the googlebomb) But looking on google’s results for “the code” I found your site at page 11! Which is surprising considering how many places you have been linked from.
Whats up with that?
May 1st, 2007 at 18:29
[…] http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/04/30/spread-this-number/ TrackBack URI […]
May 1st, 2007 at 18:30
I can Diggit
May 1st, 2007 at 18:33
Its moments like this that make me proud to be a money-hungry Jew!
May 1st, 2007 at 18:37
They are missing some letters i.e.
09ck F9ck 11ck 02ck 9Dck 74ck E3ck 5Bck D8ck 41ck 56ck C5ck 63ck 56ck 88ck C0ck
May 1st, 2007 at 18:37
Whatever it is it sure smells good
May 1st, 2007 at 18:42
well its at TPB frontpage now so some millions wont miss this number.
May 1st, 2007 at 18:45
FUCK YOU AND YOUR STUPID NUMBER BULLSHIT. ALL YOU DUMB ASSHOLES ARE FALLING FOR THIS HORSE!!!!!!!!!
May 1st, 2007 at 18:45
Spread this number…
Do you want to know why? Check it out…
May 1st, 2007 at 18:46
So do I win something?
May 1st, 2007 at 18:48
Encode the number as a 16-by-8 binary image (each row is the binary representation of one of the numbers) and copyright it yourself. If you created a tiling of the image, you could even claim it’s an original work of art.
May 1st, 2007 at 18:51
I’ve tried looking the number up
Is this like a DiVinci Code thing?
May 1st, 2007 at 19:13
[…] know what that number is. You know what to do with […]
May 1st, 2007 at 19:20
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mpaa-logo.jpeg
Look! It’s even on wikipedia (Spoilers: use steghide on linux, password is on the discussion page for the image)
May 1st, 2007 at 19:25
[…] 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 […]
May 1st, 2007 at 19:28
[…] innocent 16 hexadecimal numbers are what stands between you and your […]
May 1st, 2007 at 19:31
May the 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 be with you
May 1st, 2007 at 19:32
3500 “diggów” w godzinę…
270 tysiecy kopii w google jak rozumiem w ciągu dwóch dni? Nie da się. Jeśli to nie hoax to się da, a wszystko za sprawą tajemniczego:
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
co ma być wg opisu Master Key dla HD-DVD czyli w […..
May 1st, 2007 at 19:40
[…] Spread this number…Fuck the DMCA! […]
May 1st, 2007 at 19:49
HD DVD Processing key…
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
The HD-DVD processing key.
Tags:……
May 1st, 2007 at 19:56
[…] verdad está ahí fuera. La gente está cansada de que le pongan trabas en sus mismas narices. Los 16 dígitos que se ven […]
May 1st, 2007 at 20:04
workfresh have published the number on their homepage and provided an explanation of how to use it in PDF format
May 1st, 2007 at 20:13
[…] more, from the guy whose story was yanked from Digg and another post on the person who was banned from Digg after he submitted it, […]
May 1st, 2007 at 20:18
[…] y sobre compañías, empresas y sociedades con demasiado poder, puedes pasarte por menéame, por la noticia original, por el sitio de jplopez —que ha sido quien se ha encontrado en el gimp la imagen que uso ahí […]
May 1st, 2007 at 20:37
[…] source: http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/04/30/spread-this-number/ […]
May 1st, 2007 at 20:38
This is crazy.I wonder what is going to happen next. Can someone post what software you can use with these numbers?
May 1st, 2007 at 20:51
I have that exact same chain of characters in my database. I think it’s a slated hash of a user’s password… Dammit, I’ll have to go tell that user to change his password or else I’ll have to denounce him!
May 1st, 2007 at 20:55
You bloody Legend!
About time someone took a stance.. with numbers ;P
May 1st, 2007 at 20:56
Ohh Blu-Ray.. You’re next ;P
May 1st, 2007 at 20:58
Stupid question to ask but will this key assist with window based PC’s/Software?
May 1st, 2007 at 21:00
[…] on “democratic” internet giant Digg.com a post was made about a sequence of numbers that can be used to decode HD-DVDs on […]
May 1st, 2007 at 21:01
[…] cat is out of the bag. And from this point on, the ‘Net community will no doubt be pushing to spread this number as far and as wide as […]
May 1st, 2007 at 21:08
[…] out of hand (not that I care at all), literally EVERY story on the digg hompage is related to yesterdays HD-DVD processing key leak. Also the big news is that the HD-DVD promotion group sponsers Kevin Rose’s podcast […]
May 1st, 2007 at 21:11
New Digg censored again — getting a 404 error from:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Spread_This_Number_Again
May 1st, 2007 at 21:31
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n3ldan/480583212/
May 1st, 2007 at 21:40
[…] the wake of the hysteria that is the leak of the HD-DVD processing key I decided I would sit down and write a short piece on how the power of free people is quickly being […]
May 1st, 2007 at 21:58
[…] new stories for the past 20 minutes, how much bigger will this HD-DVD hex key leak get blown out of […]
May 1st, 2007 at 22:24
Can I use DMCA/RIAA/ as my nickname and Register as a copyright so that DMCA and so on cannot use it?
May 1st, 2007 at 22:27
For those of you who may not know already, Digg.com is directly controlled by the RIAA themselves.
May 1st, 2007 at 22:28
[…] key supposedly unlocks HDDVDs for use on Linux or something. The original artical is still here. This guy posted the original article to digg, which got over 15,000 diggs before it vanished and he […]
May 1st, 2007 at 22:36
http://www.showstash.com/links.php supports
http://www.hddvdkey.com
May 1st, 2007 at 22:41
[…] isn’t going to make my brain implode at 2am when I’d rather be sleeping. I picked a hell of a day to avoid […]
May 1st, 2007 at 22:54
[…] someone leaked the cryptographic code (a 32 digit hexadecimal number) that can be used to decode content on high definition HD-DVD discs, […]
May 1st, 2007 at 22:55
[…] based on reader recommendations. Tonight, it is the face of censorship in Geekland. 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 […]
May 1st, 2007 at 22:56
[…] 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 (click on it) […]
May 1st, 2007 at 23:51
[…] The post that started it all […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 0:19
[…] wouldn’t be spreading the number on Digg if you would like (1) Digg to survive and (2) to keep your […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 0:19
[…] wouldn’t be spreading the number on Digg if you would like (1) Digg to survive and (2) to keep your […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 0:27
[…] this one article sat along side other articles that had been on the site for nearly a year. The article in question revealed a 16 digit hexadecimal number that when properly exploited could ultimately allow the […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 0:43
[…] Spread this number • Rudd-O.com […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 0:44
Nice work!
May 2nd, 2007 at 0:46
@ MPAA - Naughty Naughty. Didn’t mummy ever teach you to not reuse passwords?
May 2nd, 2007 at 0:52
[…] tipo que se sorprendió al encontrar una historia llamada “spread this number” en digg.com la cual contenía una secuencia de números que permitiría desbloquear […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:04
[…] To briefly recap, an HD-DVD processing key, which is needed to decrypt an HD-DVD and watch it, was discovered and published. The MPAA was aghast, and has tried to stop teh entar web from publishing the number […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:05
DRM is evil.
MPAA is evil.
RIAA is evil.
Ha ha ha ha…here comes the Universal Content Utopia!
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:08
[…] Oh, this? Heh. […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:11
[…] Learn more about the HD-DVD magic number here. […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:13
[…] magic HD-DVD number is 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0. So sue me. Web 2.0 Bookmarks:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:14
[…] magic HD-DVD number is 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0. So sue me. Web 2.0 Bookmarks:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:24
EON8 supports the use of 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:25
[…] The magic HD-DVD number is: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:26
Freedom! Greetings from insecure.gr
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:35
[…] Mayo, 2007] Acerca de: WTF!? 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 Código Hexadecimal recientemente descubierto capaz de crackear la encriptación de los HD-DVD. | Comenta o […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:58
As of 1 and a half hours ago Digg have stated that they will not delete stories or comments containing the number 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0.
Good on ya Kev.
May 2nd, 2007 at 2:00
you know you want one… http://www.cafepress.com/platinum847
May 2nd, 2007 at 2:03
Does any one has the backup hd dvd?
I have it
this is the link
http://rapidshare.com/files/29024163/BackupHDDVD.zip
-You have to populate your TKDB.cfg file with proper key for it to work…
May 2nd, 2007 at 2:10
[…] 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 2:39
[…] (1 de Mayo) sucedió algo increíble en el famoso agregador de noticias Digg. Sucede que un usuario envía una noticia sobre la clave que rompe el DRM de los HD-DVD (09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0), la […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 2:42
[…] התחיל בכך שבלוגר עלום בשם rudd-o החליט לפרסם ברבים את קוד ההצפנה של פורמט HD-DVD […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 2:43
[…] sense to you? Well according to this site, It’s the HD-DVD Processing Key for most movies released so far. I was not aware that a string of […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 2:50
Don’t know about all this digg censoring etc. I came via TPB, nothing censored there
Great work. Jotting the number down
May 2nd, 2007 at 2:56
[…] Подробнее тут. Posted by unatine on Wednesday, May 2, 2007, at 11:55, and filed under from net. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog. […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 2:58
Try lighttpd if you are having huge traffic.
May 2nd, 2007 at 3:07
[…] 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 3:15
[…] The number is: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 3:22
OK, you will know, where you allways find this number :).
May 2nd, 2007 at 3:25
greetings,
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May 2nd, 2007 at 3:30
[…] Noen hevder at de har klart å hacke fram HD-DVD Processing Key. Og selfølgelig har thePirateBay.OrG slengt ut nøkkelen på fremsiden av nettstedet. […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 3:34
[…] Rudd-O you’re number 1. […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 3:40
Wonderful! Lets see what the big folks in hollywood can do now with public power.
May 2nd, 2007 at 3:46
HD-DVD processing Key…
As an act of preservation, and a stand against censorship i post the following number:
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
It’s the processing key for most of the HD-DVDs that are out on the market at the moment. This should allow you…
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:02
[…] 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/04/30/spread-this-number/ […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:29
[…] 由于这些天大量的读者将一篇关于HD DVD 的破解文章Digg到了Top 10 in All Topics，并且Digger还在Digg的文章中详细描述中有关破解HD DVD密钥的方法；Digg的某位管理员害怕引起版权以及其他一些方面的纠纷，所以删除了这篇文章以及相关评论，接下来便导致了一系列由网民自发组织的暴动，认为Digg这是违背当初Digg发起的初衷等等等等；后来，Digg见情况不妙，很快恢复了删除前的文章，并承诺 Digg 愿意最终维护用户的权益，并接受相关部门的调查和处置（有关此事而引发的版权方面的纠纷，严重点的，可能是关门大吉）；同时，Digg创始人 Kevin Rose 也就此事第一时间做出了回应： 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. […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:51
[…] did it start? Users at Digg.com submitted stories related to the discovery of a key, a string of 16 bytes, that were related to the decryption of the new […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:52
Whoever came up with that number has either been fired or is at least in the process of getting fired. Now I’ll go make a sandwich.
May 2nd, 2007 at 5:02
You might like to check out Varnish Cache, a norwegian newspaper replaced about ten squid caches with one varnish-cache. http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/
May 2nd, 2007 at 5:09
[…] MPAA verschickt munter Takedown Notices an Seiten, die die Zeichenfolge veröffentlichen. Es geht nicht gegen konkrete Software, mit der sich HD-DVDs entschlüsseln lassen oder […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 5:28
[…] muss zur Zeit auch die HD-DVD Branche erfahren. Alle Versuche, die Verbreitung des “geheimen” Content-Key von HD-DVDs zu […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 5:42
[…] הסערה נוכחית מתחוללת כאמור סביב קוד ה־HD-DVD. מדובר בקוד הצפנה בן 16 בייטים, שלרוב מופיע בתור מחרוזת של תווים אקסה־דצימלים, מופרדים במקפים בין כל בייט. מאחר ואני שומר על התחת שלי לא תמצאו פה את הקוד בשלב זה, אבל אני מאמין שלא צריכים אותי בשביל להכריע את המאבק. […]
May 2nd, 2007 at 6:04
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May 2nd, 2007 at 6:07
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May 2nd, 2007 at 7:00
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May 2nd, 2007 at 7:11
Thanks for the article. I would be very interested to know exactly what you did with squid to get it to proxy your requests. I have liked to this in my article http://odin749.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-know-i-am-late-but-09-f9-11-02-9d-74.html
which is about the same subject. How the Internet went crazy for a day. This issue has made me very proud to be part of the collective Internet community will to stand up for consumers rights.
May 2nd, 2007 at 7:29
[…] And then I stumbled on this page… http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/04/30/spread-this-number/ […]