AACS (Advanced Access Content System)

09-F9 news about how to crack the AACS (Advanced Access Content System) encryption used to limit copying of HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs has created a massive controversy on social news sites. Share your opinions about the controversy, and... [more]

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Followup on digg.com, AACS, and "laws for bloggers"

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From: www.inpropriapersona.com

In an interesting article entitled " Digg This?: What Laws Must We Obey? " at "The Faculty Blog" from the University of Chicago, a law professor not intimately involved with the DMCA and Web 2.0 writes: As to law, as Digg 's attorneys undoubtedly told it yesterday, the leading decision addressing the legitimacy of linking to decryption tools is Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Corley , 273 F.3d 429 (2nd Cir. 2001). That case deals with the prior iteration of this situation—the ordinary DVD—and the program for decrypting it, DeC SS . In that case, the Second Circuit validated an anti-linking injunction ("under the ... Read Full Story

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EFF.org has great legal primar on the AACS's take down orders

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This is a great summary of the legal implication of what's been going on around the AACS 09 f9 case: What is the AACS-LA's argument? In its takedown letters , the AACS-LA claims that hosting the key violates the DMCA's ban on trafficking in circumvention devices. The DMCA provides that: No person shall ... offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof that that - (A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; (B) has only limited ... Read Full Story

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Kevin Rose posts Digg This: 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0

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Here is what Kevin Rose said about the cease and desist orders cocerning Digg posts with codes to break the AACS encryption. "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. If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying. Digg on, Kevin" Here is Kevin's post Read Full Story

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HD-DVD encryption key and Digg.com

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Digg founder Kevin Rose finally conceded and gave users the go-ahead to post the secret enryption key-code that's been causing so many troubles. "You've made it clear," he wrote on a note posted to the site. "You'd rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company." This controversy has raised legal issues concerning free speech and the use of social networks and web2.0 services. What can a user legally post on a blog, bookmarking service, or social network? How are the rules to be regulated, and who will regulate and enforce them? Read Full Story

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AACS

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From: www.inpropriapersona.com

In an attempt to capture some of the current AACS (Advanced Access Content System, copy-restriction technology for new-format DVDs) controversy, here is some background information. The whole controversy started when someone managed to figure out what the 16-digit hexadecimal key is that currently encrypts new-format DVDs. Although knowledge of this rather simple number doesn't in-itself decrypt DVDs (some software is needed too), it's enough that the AACS organization began sending take-down notices to sites posting the key, and revoked it. (Meaning, I gather, that it will be useful for decrypting newly-published movies.) Free-speech and technology advocates revolted in a variety of ways, complaining essentially ... Read Full Story

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