09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
- May 1st, 2007
- Posted in Law . Politics . Technology
- By Steffen L. Norgren
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In Hexadecimal:
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
In decimal:
2^6 * 5 * 19 * 12,043 * 216,493 * 836,256,503,069,278,983,442,067
In binary:
00001001 11111001 00010001 00000010
10011101 01110100 11100011 01011011
11011000 01000001 01010110 11000101
01100011 01010110 10001000 11000000
As a 320×160 Image: (©Copyright Steffen L. Norgren 2007)

The above is 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.
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