Chaos on the internet over AACS key censorship

[PriyoBan]

Attempts to censor a string of letters and numbers stirred Internet users to overwhelm Digg.com and other websites to change their legal position on censorship. The offending string? An AACS encryption key used to protect HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
It may all have started with news that the Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator (AACS LA) sent a legal threat to Google Inc., asking for the removal of all references on its Blogger sites on HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc copy protection circumvention.

Read more about it here:
DailyTech - AACS Key Censorship Leads to First Internet Riot

 

[elendil]

Every top story on digg yesterday had that number yesterday. Got a little too much by the end of the day. Its already out that the key is to be changed in future hd-dvd's. Some expert has given two weeks for the new key to be cracked.