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Rich Gauszka wrote:
> Can one get arrested for wearing a t-shirt with the encryption key printed
> on it?
>

& then....once it becomes a bg news story it's all over as then it
spreads to newspaper sites, google cache etc.etc. & thus to wayback
machine etc.etc.

Adam



> http://www.hardmac.com/news/2007-05-03/#6725
>
> Everybody knows Digg.com and Google. Yesterday, following the release of the
> encryption key supposed to protect HD-DVD contents, lawyers acting for the
> MPAA and Advanced Access Content System (AACS) have sent dozens of cease and
> desist letters, even threatening administrators to take their websites down
> with a DMCA notice.
>
> While trying to obey to request, Digg founders were heavily criticized by
> community members pushing Digg Staff to change their mind and leave message
> referring to the encryption key online. So Digg is getting ready to fight
> with the AACS. Lawyers went even further by trying to force Google to stop
> publishing links/messages containing and/or related to the encryption key;
> something almost totally impossible to do taking into account that web users
> have already found ways to communicate the key in an almost non identifiable
> format...
>
> One can already order T-shirt with the encryption key printed on... as it
> was the case when the CSS key was cracked.
>
> For sure by attacking a popular community website, the AACS is getting ready
> to fight a symbol of the internet community. Where does the right for
> information start and end? If suing the person who hacked and/or released
> the key can be explained by the law, how to avoid the public to get the
> information available on the net?
>
>

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