AACS to confront “every blogger” who published DRM key
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.
John Dvorak 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.
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.
Posted: Fri - May 4, 2007 at 07:44 AM